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

Mark Gallagher mark at cyberfuddle.com
Fri Aug 2 06:19:00 CDT 2002


Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> Adam Fahy wrote:
>
>>> Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that "color: red;"
>>> didn't actually "make stuff red." Would you still use it to describe
>>> what you were formerly trying to make red? What /would/ you use?
>>
>> I'm not arguing for the use of <color: red;> as a tag, so I don't
>> understand your point.
>
> I wasn't implying <color: red;> as a tag -- I'd have thought it was
> obvious I was using a CSS example from the format -- but that's not
> my point.

Was obvious to me :-)

> Specifying I want something 'red' is no different from specifying
> I want something 'bold' -- it's strictly a visual issue. And that's
> a reasonable decision for the site designer to make.

Agreed.

> Not everything *has* to be about semantic meaning.

Certainly, not everything in web design.  Everything in HTML[0], on the
other hand...


[0] Apart from the "cop-out for the Real World" tags, <span> and <div>

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