Re: italic fonts

I am not sure that I agree with some of the assumptions used her. Not all 
italics are particularly detrimental to being able to read text. It 
entirely depends on the font. The reason for having strong and em is that 
they provide different roles. Strong gives more weight (visually and 
semantically) to a word, as oposed to em which is commonly used to mark 
out key points of information. This might seem a subtle distinction but it 
is important.

My two pence,

Tom

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:28:36 +0100, Scarlett Julian (ED) 
<Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk> wrote:

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>> So my advice would be go with bolding if you need emphasis.
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> Is there a case for doing away with <strong> altogether and having <em> 
> display in bold by default unless specified as different in the css. It 
> strikes me that the distinction, semantically, between <em> and <strong> 
> is becoming rather blurred.
>
> Just thinking aloud..
>
> Julian
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>
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