On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of > the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reason for the others being deprecated > is a desire to separate styling from the reason that a content needs a > particular style - 'i' and 'b' imply a particular form of styling in visual > terms. They are of little use in audio terms, however. I frequently style > the 'em' and 'strong' tags in terms of colour rather than font style - > sometimes both - such is the flexibility of the cascading style sheet > mechanism.
I'm trying to imagine just how you would intonate 'emphasised' and 'strong' so as to differentiate them. In fact I don't really know what 'strong' means in this context. If I want to emphasise something on the page I would put it into bold text. I use italics to differentiate a particular word or phrase in much the same way as putting quotes round it. If you want full disability access you shouldn't be using colours to convey meaning. Colours are of little use in audio terms. You seem to be saying that we should rigidly stick to particular tags for specific purposes and then in the next breath that you do whatever you want in the stylesheets. This seems not a little inconsistent. -- _ |_|. _ Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ |\_||_ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com Disclaimer: Please imagine about 50 lines of pointless clutter.
