Comments on: The i, b, em, & strong elements

By: Geeves

Geeves — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:51:46 +0000

Thank goodness someone wrote this article. It annoys the crap out of me, especially when WYSIWYGs, show ‘B’ buttons in their UIs and insert a tag. I’m so happy these are given appropriate semantic definitions now.

By: Oli Studholme

Oli Studholme — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:26:01 +0000

The unstoppable force that is Richard Ishida has written an article on and . He notes that one reason it’s important to use classes is for localisation, as foreign languages (such as Japanese) may not use bold and italic styling. If you’ve used and (and other elements) semantically, with meaning-based class names, it will be much easier when localising to restyle these phrases appropriately.

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By: Oli Studholme

Oli Studholme — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:52:51 +0000

@Steve Black — so business as usual then? and had no semantics, and and are more realigned than redefined. I don’t think this will break the interwebs.

@Joe — oh no, you win the internet!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:27:25 +0000

I fail at the internet.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:26:46 +0000
I see this might be more of an accessibility issue. I’m thinking screen readers… , , etc can all help readers present content, verbally, to users with disabilities. You might now want to be spoken differently, such as for an album title or a song title, but emphasis on a phrase or expression, would work wonderfully.

By: Leandro (inkel)

Leandro (inkel) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:42:07 +0000

Great article, thanks.

I have a travel blog and as such I was using iets for words and phrases in another language, but now I will start using for it, although it’s going to take me a while I think, I’m very used to think of and as bad practices tags.

By: Steven Black

Steven Black — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:53:18 +0000

I predict that no end of confusion will come of this.

What’s worse: there’s no way out. Once semantics are re-defined you’re stuck. The ensuing confusion is permanent.

By: Oli Studholme

Oli Studholme — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:32:06 +0000

@Mike Wyatt — surely they threw semantics out the window way earlier when they added all these presentational elements to the spec? AFAIK there was no difference in rendering or AT use of the two elements (despite the intent), so basically they were duplicates. I hope we get a way to distinguish initialisms and acronyms sometime though.

By: Mike Wyatt

Mike Wyatt — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:49:44 +0000

that’s exactly the joke

the W3C threw semantics out the window when they remove the acronym tag from the spec, now this?