[thelist] semantic markup
RUST Randal
RRust at COVANSYS.com
Wed Jun 2 10:22:40 CDT 2004
Tim Beadle said:
> They don't cover all situations. If what you want is
> emphasis, or strong emphasis, then fine - use them. What you
> shouldn't do, though, is wholesale replace all <i> tags with
> <em>, and <b> with <strong>, as there are many different
> semantic meanings for bold text and italics, which are not emphasis.
The whole point of <em> and <strong> is to move away from the
semantically meaningless, visually meaningful tags <b> and <i>. It's an
accessibility issue, and part of the reason why <b> and <i> are
deprecated tags in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0.
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Randal Rust
Covansys Corp.
Columbus, OH
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