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Re: HTML5 and new elements (was Re: Use of SAMP to highlight search results)

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 28, 2010 11:18PM

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

>> The good old HTML specifications even said that browsers _must_
>> render EM and STRONG elements differently from each other and from
>> normal text.
>
> All I can find in that regard is this under
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1
>
> "EM and STRONG are used to indicate emphasis. [...] The presentation
> of phrase elements depends on the user agent. Generally, visual user
> agents present EM text in italics and STRONG text in bold font."

The _good old_ specification is HTML 2.0, which says:

"User agents must render highlighted phrases distinctly from plain text.
Additionally, EM content must be rendered as distinct from STRONG content,
and B content must rendered as distinct from I content."
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.7

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