This is such a joy! Thank you all for such a lively exchange. First off, my memory betrayed me: it turns out the S and U elements *were* deprecated in HTML 4.01 [1], but they managed to make a comeback in HTML 5. This puzzles me even further, if that is even possible. I get lost with the demarcation put forth between emphasis and importance when it applies to EM vs. STRONG (subjective vs. objective?), stacked on top of this notion of "changing mood" while not conveying emphasis for I, while utilitarianly drawing attention without granting importance for B... I guess semantics is a rather intractable goal after all. But it gives mild comfort to find out that even the regulating bodies flip flop (e.g., STRONG used to be a 2nd-level EM, but now EMs ought to be nested, etc.). I realize amid all this flux most browsers are understandably likely to support all these one-letter elements for many years.
Thanks again for all the replies. Cheers, Ezequiel [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
