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[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 22 Nov 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>>On Thursday, 22 Nov 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>>>Is there any real difference between <b>this<b> and *this*?
>>Yes. The former is physical markup, the latter is logical markup.
>Ok then, what about <em>this</em> and *this*?
>Though I would argue that the distinction between physical and logical
>isn't so clear-cut in this case.

Well, it's not clear-cut at all, because they're both logical
markup. Here the difference is that one requires machine
interpretation and one does not.

>logical meaning. Maybe you could think of <b> to mean "to be spoken
>boldly" of which "bold" text is one particular physical interpretation. 

Maybe you could, but you'd be wrong; the W3C HTML 4.01 specification
says "B: Renders as bold text style."

>Do html speakers for the blind emphasise text in <b> </b> markup in some
>way?

Yes, but clearly they are forced to try and do the best they can with
phyical markup.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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