Specific to your situation, I question whether an article's date or its supplementary text is really best characterized as being "less important" than the article itself. That doesn't strike me as a useful semantic distinction. In the absence of markup elements <date> and <supplement>, you may be left without a semantically direct way of specifying your auxiliary content in today's HTML. Personally I don't think <small> fits the bill.
My example of article date or supplementary information at the end of an article was just one which I had to think of on the spot. Perhaps citations, footnotes, references, etc. make better examples of the type of thing I'm thinking of. The use of <small> has been something I've had in the back of my mind for a while and there are a number of situations where I feel some information should possibly be marked up as supplementary information that is in support of, but not directly part of, an article. -- Australian Web Designer - http://www.blakehaswell.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************