3Re: My favorite HTML font style tag is...

Why? What's the difference. I am sure that there is a good one, but i don't understand why you just say "you should this!" without explaining why. Also, if you were a nitpicker then you would have said "use  tags" instead, because that's the XHTML way (all lower cased elements).

Letsee, i just tested this html:

<p>this is <i>italic</i></p>
<p>this is <em>emphasis</em></p>
<p>this is <tt>teletype</tt></p>
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and viewed it with lynx, which 'rendered' the  and  tags, but not the <tt> tag. If this is what you were referring to, then yes, i should switch. But i probably won't. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re: 3Re: My favorite HTML font style tag is... by theAcolyte (Pilgrim) on Aug 20, 2003 at 21:28 UTC
Ya, my XHTML is garbage, thanks for reminding me. The reason for using <em> over <i> or <b> in this situation is the idea of structure vs. presentation. In an ideal world, your HTML would only mark up your content structurally ... <em> rather then <i> or <b> for emphasis <code> rather then <pre> for mono-spaced code <h1> for a headline instead of <font> Why bother, you ask? (Well, even if you don't....) Because not all devices that render HTML pages are visual -- example, if someone is looking at your page on a Palm Pilot, then the palm can interpret emphasis the best way it can. Also, search engines are better equiped to deal with structural markup -- markup that signifies what type of data something is. Once you can do all your mark-up structurally, you can use CSS to have your HTML visually styled in the user-agents that can handle it, and the ones that can't will still be able to digest it easily.	[reply]

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Re: 3Re: My favorite HTML font style tag is...
by theAcolyte (Pilgrim) on Aug 20, 2003 at 21:28 UTC

The reason for using over or in this situation is the idea of structure vs. presentation.

In an ideal world, your HTML would only mark up your content structurally ...

rather then or for emphasis
<code> rather then <pre> for mono-spaced code
<h1> for a headline instead of

Why bother, you ask? (Well, even if you don't....) Because not all devices that render HTML pages are visual -- example, if someone is looking at your page on a Palm Pilot, then the palm can interpret emphasis the best way it can. Also, search engines are better equiped to deal with structural markup -- markup that signifies what type of data something is.

Once you can do all your mark-up structurally, you can use CSS to have your HTML visually styled in the user-agents that can handle it, and the ones that can't will still be able to digest it easily.

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