[thelist] semantic markup

[RUST Randal]

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