On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:09:59 -0700, Ben Curtis wrote: > Both of your examples make the same amount of sense, semantically. > Bold text does not mean anything different than non-bold text, and > therefore boldness has no semantic meaning.
In theory, I agree with you. But in practice - the B tag has a history, it has been used to imply boldness of the marked-up text. I think using it the fashion you are describing introduces maintenance issues. I think the developer who approaches this later will be confused. 'Why did they use a B tag here? Are they implying boldness? It isn't semantic. What were they trying to achieve?' For this reason alone I would use a span tag instead of a b in these circumstances. IMHO Lea -- Lea de Groot Elysian Systems - http://elysiansystems.com/ Brisbane, Australia ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
