Kristof Zelechovski writes: > A lede is a summary or an invitation to read the whole article. It is > semantically relevant; the reader may ask, e.g., "Give me the ledes > and I shall choose what I would like to read".
For a user-agent to reliably provide that functionality would require a specific <lede> element, not merely allowing one of several uses of <b> be for denoting ledes. Using <b> for ledes really only enables ledes to be styled differently, not for semantic interpretation. > Asking for "the first paragraph of each article" is not that > practical, as the article need not contain a lede there Are there sites which have variable-length semantic ledes, use an element to mark that up, and where a reader who doesn't have the lede styled differently (for example if <span class=lede> is used and the reader doesn't have CSS) is missing something? In practice it seems that sites which style ledes also have a journalistic house style which requires journalists to consistently have the lede be the first paragraph (or whatever). Smylers