> From: "Chris Marsh" <chris at ecleanuk.com> [...] > If you embolden text for the sake of emboldening it, it strikes me as > a visual formatting issue and not a semantic one. Thus, perhaps one > should use <span style='font-weight:bold'></span> (or something) > instead of <b></b>? The other way to look at it would be - why would low-impact response, since i responded to this very idea of the span just over a week ago: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20030811/146532.html > you wish to embolden text for no reason? Wouldn't that be a little > like writing random WORDS in capital for no PARTICULAR reason? I'm > being slightly facetious, but I see too many (usually personal) > websites with emboldened or italicised text all over the place where > it really has no reason being. [...] while i agree that it often isn't necessary, many people do it... in fact, i had an example i posted on this thread over a year ago about people who do it for no reason: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020729/119519.html was that the laziest response *ever*? -- my latest book project: Web Graphics for Non-Designers http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151159/evoltorg02-20 ISBN: 1904151159