Re: Italics in HTML

by "Mike Eovino" <meovino(at)erols.com>

 Date:  Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:40:12 -0500
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
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>What system must he be using to NOT be able to simply read properly
>prepared italics in HTML text???


Possibly a text based browser, such as Lynx?  Have you tried replacing <I>
with <EM> (denoting emphasis).  Most graphical browsers translate <EM> to
italics, but text based ones should be able to do something else, like
change text color or use reversed text.  And I think (I could be very wrong
here) some search engines score words in <EM> as more relevant.

HTH -
Mike Eovino
Webmaster
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com

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