Bold

Jul 27, 2008 09:57

Which is worse? or ?

Leave a comment

anonymous July 27 2008, 10:58:09 UTC
Both, use instead. That tag has meaning in terms of the content -- it should be expressed strongly no matter what kind of rendering you're using. You can then use css to say that strong should be rendered in bold when putting your html on a screen (as opposed to saying it more strongly when reading it).

Bob

Reply

anonymous July 27 2008, 10:59:26 UTC
Okay, failuretastic...

Bob

Reply

scaryjeff July 27 2008, 11:42:34 UTC
Agreed, is the way to go.

Reply

lieutenanth July 27 2008, 18:59:40 UTC
Yes, thanks, I only do this stuff as my job. I'm not a total cretin, you know!

What I asked was which of the two I gave was worse, because I've witnessed one blogging platform that does one, and another platform that does the other.

Reply

lardarsegreg July 28 2008, 13:54:29 UTC
I'll go with the latter, as, although it's more flexible, and can have other formatting combined with it, you have to be extremely careful you are not turning multiple formattings on and off at the same time. You could do each change in its own tag, but then why not just use a shorter tag, as it can also affects post size limits.

I believe that {b} isn't valid 4.01 strict, though...

Reply


Leave a comment

Up