- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:56:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Nir Dagan wrote:
> I think that <b> and <strong> are exactly identical in every practical
> and theoretical respect (up to the wording of some specs.),
> so it is a matter of taste.
I think the main differnce is illustrated as follow. Here I'm comparing
<i> elments to <em> elements.
<i> this is <i>nested italics</i></i>.
<em> this is <em>nested emphisis</em></em>.
In the first case, clearly everything should be in italics.
In the second case, using <em>, the nested <em> data should be rendered in
some other way, commonly a monospaced different font.
So <em> is different from <i>.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``Paradoxically, a refusal to `put a monetary value on life' means that
life is often undervalued.'' -- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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