- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:28:58 +0100
- To: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- CC: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Maurice wrote: <snip> > Um..i don't have any answers but I do have this. > > <p class=MsoNormal>Abcd <i><u>efghijk lmnop <b>qrs</b></u></i><span > style='font-style:normal'><u><b> tuv</b></u></span><u> > wxyz<o:p></o:p></u></p> > > Spent a couple minutes randomly highlighting portions of a paragraph in Word > and bold/italics/underlining parts of it. > > I can't seem to get it to output the often used example of: > > <b> this is <i> a sentence </b> made of words</i> I'd hope not, too. However messy their produced markup may be, it should at least be properly nested. > Could we get some feedback from microsoft why they use <b> instead of > <strong>? Did you ask for bold, or was there a "strong emphasis" button in Word? The two are actually not the same. Just because they *look* the same doesn't mean they are. If they were the same, then <b> is just as good a tag as <strong> (except better, since <b> is five characters shorter). > Also, they put spans all over the place. They could have just used spans > with styles instead of b,I,and u tags. And you would have an extra 32 characters per bold tag: <span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> <b></b>12345678901234567890123456789012 IMO they should just use <b>, as they do already: it's much more readable. Andrew Sidwell
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