[thelist] replace <b> with <strong> (why dont use b tag)]

[Simon Willison]

At 11:07 31/07/2002 -0400, rudy wrote:
>here's a good case for <b> instead of <strong> --
>
>you know how jakob et al use bold to highlight certain key phrases so that
>it's easier to scan ahead and spot the paragraph that deals with the
>subject matter you're looking for?  (what's that called, by the way? i'd
>love to have a more acceptable term than "scan ahead")
>
>bold is a VISUAL SCANNING CUE in this context, and it would NOT MAKE SENSE
>to have aural browsers EMPHASIZE those words while actually READING THE
>COPY
>
>make sense?

Indeed it does - that's an excellent example. For the record though, Jakob
does this with <strong> on useit.com ;) In fact I hate to think what that
would sound like in a speech browser when you consider how often he uses
the technique - the thing would be shouting at you every third sentence :)