Re: Nullifying insidious HTML 3.2 constructs

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
[snip]

 > Heh, they can be useful though:
 >  <http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i>
 >
 > Not always, but sometimes.

Not sure I agree with the conclusions :

"So if you want to use bold or italics, and HTML
  doesn’t have a semantic element for what you mean,
  use b or i. If you’re not sure which semantic element
  to use, use b or i. [last sentence deliberately
  omitted, as I have a tiny bit of sympathy for it]"

I teach the use of <em class="..."> and (where appropriate)
<strong class="...">; examples of "..." that I frequently
adduce are :

 stress (the normal case)
 foreign-word
 latin-abbreviation
 book-title
 ship-name

Philip Taylor
 

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