I know these tags are only supposed to be used for presentational rather than semantic emphasis, but i've been struggling to come up with examples of when they would be used.
Same here.
The only situation I can think of when there is an established visual standard for certain things that don't really have a semantic emphasis.
My take is that if something is presented differently there must be a reason for that.
For example, when listing somebody's academic qualifications the standard is to display the institution in italics but i'd say that it's not appropriate to use <em>.
I'd use <span clas="institution">...</span>.
A. Ingram, MEng <i>Warw</i> Does anyone know of any other legitimate uses of these tags?
Well, ok, maybe <i class="institution">Warw</i>. It has some semantics brought in with class and it stays in italics even with CSS off. And it is shorter. Still, I doubt I'll ever use <b> or <i>. Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
