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From: Nick Wilson
Date: Mar 11, 2002 12:28AM

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* and then marie Holly Marie declared....
> > On another list (webdesign-L <http://www.webdesign-l.com/>;) the
> question > came up about using <strong> vs. <b> and why and when. I
> thought I'd ask > this here, too.

> This has always been a puzzle to me, because I felt both were very
> similar in meaning and also both were visually emphasized. I thought if
> one wants to emphasize the text in any format that bolding it either way
> would be acceptable.

Similar in appearance not meaning. em and strong are levels of emphasis
and b is bold text.

> When delivered in a lynx reader do both get bolded, equally? Print
> versions?

Yes.

> A case I have seen where one may bold inside a style on an element tag
> for presentation, and if styles are off this will not get displayed,
> might be missing that point that it will not be bolded in text only and
> or other media delivery?

I'm afraid I'm missing your point here....

> EM and Strong are considered Logical styles, where....
> B and I are considered Physical or presentational? styles...

Yep.

> At one time, I actually thought the W3C was contemplating the
> deprecation of both B and I, and having designer/developers switch over
> to using EM and Strong.

I think they are, although I'm not certain I think they may have
dropped it from the xhtml strict dtd.

> On most software- B seems to be the winner, maybe because it makes for
> smaller ICONs, and also I seems to be used for Itallics instead of EM
> for emphasis, which is opposite to that thought, in both Desktop
> Publishing Programs and many graphics and font generating software. So
> this is rather confusing and I always thought they were similar in
> nature.

What's confusing? /Software/ is the keyword here.
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