On Nov 2, 2007 8:36 AM, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Case in point, Wordpress doesn't offer <i> or <b> in the post editor, > > just <em> and <strong>, and yet the buttons for these say "i" and "b"! > > Annoying! > > > > > Thanks Christian and others, > > Another question though... do you have an example of proper, semantic > use of <strong> vs <b>? Is it just just a tag to allow you to style > your own visual emphasis? How about <strong> vs. <em> - what's the > semantic difference? Here's the shameful confession - I am guilty of > blindly swapping these tags for <b> and <i>. Now I have to back up my > argument to go back! :-P
I recommend looking at the recommended tags for HTML 5 to see some more attempts at creating semantic tags for uses of <b> and <i>. <b> and <i> have no semantic value, but there are lots of times when <strong> and <em> would be the wrong tag to use. Also, there's microformats but I don't know if those cover all the bases. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
