Justin Sinclair wrote:
I'm curious - I've read something similar to the following quote a bunch
of times:
Abusing <em> just for italics or <strong> just for bolding,
when no
emphasis is intended is the same *sort of* abuse as
using tables for
layout. It is only abuse of a slightly lesser
degree.
Are there really torrents of <em> and <strong> abuse out in the real world?
Most of the presentational uses of strong and em in paragraph text are
semantic. People want text bolded in a paragraph to give it emphasis, to
make it "pop" out of the surrounds - to make it "strong". This seems to
me entirely semantic.
Not sure how torrential the abuses are, but the ones I see most often
are similar to the situations I see every day when people author
documents quickly in Word: instead of defining Heading 1, Heading 2,
etc, most people quickly write down their document and simply make the
paragraphs that are headings bold, italic, bump up the font size a bit,
etc, until it looks like the document they have in mind. Then, they
always complain that, once the document gets large, they always have to
manually create their tables of content, keep track of page numbers when
they copy/paste/rearrange sections, etc. Or, slightly less evil, they do
define things as Heading X, but then don't like the style that's
assigned and simply use bold/italic and set different fonts/sizes
manually, for each occurrence, rather than diving into the CSS-like
functions of Word to define the document's overall style.
P
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