- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:55:48 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jewett, Jim J wrote: > A typical contract (including many software licenses) will > contain several paragraphs of upper-case, because the law > says that something needs to be emphasized. I don't think it's the law but lawyers that say it needs to be "emphasized". > Emphasizing with an <em> is better than just upper-casing, > for the same reasons that <strong> is better than <b>. I think this is an _opposite_ example. Using just CSS to create uppercasing is better, since the real intent is not emphasis but filling some (imaginary) formal requirement. Everyone knows such text don't get emphasis and aren't normally read at all. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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