Re: Stumped!

Hi Peter

Just to expand a little on the excellent replies already sent in
response to your question, the logical structure of the document
(different levels of headings, paragraphs, lists, etc) is important when
you consider how a web page is presented by an increasing number of
"non-standard" browsers (ie text only, text-to-speech, mobile phones,
etc).  Some non-standard browsers can present a summary of a web page
based on the heading structure.  This gives a useful overview of the
page in circumstances where it can't be viewed as a whole (ie on a
monitor with full graphic display and standard sized text).  In
addition, the user may also be able to skip to the section that is of
most interest to them, without having to listen to or scroll through
everything that comes before it.

IMO, accurately representing the structure of a web page is a good step
towards "browser-" and "future-proofing" it.

Hope that helped to answer your question.

Regards,
Donna
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----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Benoit <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>

> In a HTML document, please explain to me the difference.  The
> results would be the same, so why the technicality?  If it's a heading
fine,
> a heading is nothing more than preformatted text isn't it?  So why
would it
> really matter if you used <H3> or if you used <FONT SIZE=3>.  Maybe if
you
> were doing something special with the page via scripting fine, but for
the
> standard ordinary web page I wouldn't think that such a
differentiation
> would matter.

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