Hi Blake, Garret Dimmon used <small> for the purpose you are suggesting in his site redesign. He explains his reasoning behind it in this article on digital web (http://www.digital-web.com/articles/coding_for_content/).
It's down to personal preference but I think the reasoning is pretty good. Regards, Andrew Ingram > Hey list, > > We have two elements, EM and STRONG, to emphasise text as being more > important than the text around it, but we don't seem to have any > elements to show that text is less important than the surrounding > text. > > What is the best way to show something is less important than the > surrounding information (e.g. the date of a post or article, > supplementary information at the bottom of a post or article)? > > It seems to me the only tag that represents anything remotely close to > that is the <small> tag, however that is a purely presentational tag > according to the W3C specifications as it only specifies font > information. > > While style sheets and, for example the SPAN element, are definitely a > better way of specifying the font information that the SMALL element > would provide, they don't provide any semantic information to indicate > that the text is less important. > > What do you guys think about showing that something is less important > relative to the surrounding content? > > Regards, > Blake ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
