Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 22

[Jonathan Barrett]

Good catch - I think a lot of people get scared of <b> and <i> when  
they first discover standards-based design, which leads to craziness  
like:

I <span class="bold">really</span> haven't got this whole <span  
class="italic">semantic</span> thing sussed yet.

As far as I recall, <b>, <i> and <span> are precisely equivalent from  
a semantic standpoint, with the added "bonus" that <b> and <i> have  
vaguely reliable "default" behaviours that might be handy, but should  
never be relied upon.

Correct me if I'm wrong :)

-J


On 1 Dec 2005, at 11:42, Michel Fortin wrote:


> Le 2005-12-01 à 03:14, Jonathan Barrett a écrit :

>

>> I used to think like this too, but HTML is all about semantics.  

>> Your <cite>book titles</cite> can be italicised by appropriately  

>> styling semantic tags, and you can use <span class="non- 

>> english">faux</span> tags to mark up other things.

>

> You could also write `<i class="non-english">faux</i>` which has  

> the same lack of semantic value as span but will display as italic  

> when CSS rules are discarded.

>

>

> Michel Fortin

> michel.fortin at michelf.com

> http://www.michelf.com/

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