I think that <b> and <i> are equivalent to <u> and that they probably
should be deprecated. They probably will be in HTML5 (though I haven't
looked). In my opinion, those are purely style, not semantic, and should
be done with CSS.
Joseph Ortenzi wrote:
Very good points
<b> and <i> are stylistic and <em> and <strong> are semantic.
<u> is stylistic, but the intention of an underlined string of text
can be expressed with any of the above, dependent on intention.
I am one of those severely frustrated people who want to click
underlined text so keep it out please...
I like underline on hover as useful feedback that it is in fact, a
link. Predefined standard colours are less important these days, but
good design does seem to favour blue-ish for link as a convention.
Joe
On Mar 27, 2008, at 09:14, Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Hi,
Usability.
Users expect link-text to be underlined. Many user studies found that
when you underline other text users try to click on it and get quite
annoyed when nothing happens (some users would click on the underlined
text several times before they gave up).
Originally links were to have predefined colours that would have avoided
this situation, but Web Designers thought better and decided to start
styling their link colours as they thought fit. Even though this
styling
often does not include underlining, users still expect underlined
text to
mean links. This led to the confusion, so something had to give - it
was
<u>.
<b> and <i> are not deprecated because there may be times when you
want to
style the text in that way but without the semantic emphasis that
<em> and
<strong> confer.
On Thu, March 27, 2008 4:28 am, Kepler Gelotte wrote:
Hi,
I am just curious if anyone can explain why the <u> tag has been
deprecated
while <b> and <i> are still allowed.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Kepler Gelotte
Neighbor Webmaster, Inc.
156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854
www.neighborwebmaster.com
phone/fax: (732) 302-0904
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