Tim Offenstein wrote: > Recommend using <strong> as opposed to <b> in the interest of > semantic markup. There are plans to deprecate the i and b tags > because they're not semantic, they're presentational.
FWIW: <b> and <i> are not deprecated in existing markup languages, and there are no such plans on the table for the next... <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/#the-b> ...a <b> is (as of now) defined as "a pre-styled <span>", and is as such semantically neutral. <b> can not be automatically interchanged with <strong>, unless <strong> carries the correct weight for the content in the first place. Similar with <i> and <em> - they have only default styles (in most browsers) in common. We can style <b>, <i>, <em> and <strong> as we choose, and no software in general use today will pay much, if any, attention to their semantic value or lack of same. That may of course change in the future - as for anything else, so it certainly doesn't hurt to apply the semantically most correct element for each case - which may happen to justify the use of <b> and <i> in lack of better options. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
