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[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 22 Nov 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>>Maybe you could, but you'd be wrong; the W3C HTML 4.01 specification
>>says "B: Renders as bold text style."
>Hmm, I was wondering if that was the case. I thought the W3C were the
>vanguard against the scourge of physical markup so I'd have thought they
>would have defined <b> in a more logical way.

Er, no. There _are_ a perfectly good set of logical markup tags. The
physical markup tags are intended for use only when you actually
intend to do physical markup.

>a <b> tag". Rather they want to emphasise a passage for logical reasons
>and the <b> tag is a good way of doing this (despite what the W3C say).

The W3C would tell you that <em> is a good way of doing it.

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

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