Re: I want to make one word Bold

----- Original Message -----
From: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
To: "'Mike Taylor'" <lonewolf(at)one.net>; "Hwg-Techniques (E-mail)"
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: RE: I want to make one word Bold


    > HTML (XHTML, XML) should be used to mark-up the structure of
information.
    > Mark-up should define what something IS, not what it LOOKS LIKE.

That's all well and good, but if HTML was really designed to define what
something IS and not what it LOOKS LIKE, then clearly HTML contradicts
itself if tags such as <b> and <i> were created in the first place.

    >For example:

    ><b> says "the contained text should be displayed bold".

    ><strong> says "the contained text is strongly emphasized".

    >Think for a moment about the difference between those two statements.
Think
    >exactly what the two tags are describing.

Looks like two ways of describing the exact same thing to me.

Mike

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