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

[DESCHAMPS Stéphane DvSI/SICoR]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]De la part de Mark Gallagher
> Envoye : jeudi 1 aout 2002 14:45
> A : thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Objet : Re: [thelist] replace <b> with <strong> (why dont use b tag)
> That's certainly correct, though :-).  <b> is *not* the equivalent of
> <strong>, but rather <span style="font-weight: bold;">.  Of course,
> browsers like Lynx will still render <b> as <strong>, simply
> because too
> many people have been stupid/ignorant/not cared[0] that <b> is not
> <strong> and a lot of meaning may be lost as a result.
(...)
> [0] Actually, option "c" is more likely - by several orders of
>      magnitude.  Please, before you send hate mail, remember
> I'm probably
>      not calling you stupid, but merely apathetic and/or lazy :-)

No hate mail intended, Mark ;-)

The truth is that until someone told me the difference (semantic vs graphic,
to make a long story short), I thought <b> and <strong> were synomyms, and I
even thought <b> was a shorthand. So I'm more for option "b".

Anyway now I'm advocating in all the circles I know for <strong>, thanks to
this list, among other sources.

stef