Hello Tom, To make it short (I haven't read the article, sorry), <strong> and <em> elements should be used to give semantic meaning to your text. This is fundamentally different than making text bold or italic, as these are only two visual ways of showing emphasis. Bold or italic text does not necessarily mean that the author wants to put emphasis on that piece of text (he may simply want to have his entire text bold because it looks better that way), while the <strong> and <em> elements do.
Naturally, if you do not style the two elements, they appear the same visually as the old <i> and <b> tags. People tent to associate <strong> and <em> tags with that styling, but there are countless other ways of displaying emphasis (by making the text bigger, or changing the color for example). Hope that answers your question, -- Sébastien Sauvé To try to be better is to be better ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
