HTML

What is the difference between <b> and <strong>

The <b> tag has one single letter while <strong> is a 6-letter word.

>>2
In terms of output

>>3
<strong> can look like anything as long as it's somehow strongly emphasized. <b> is the same as <span style="font-weight: bold">.

><span style="font-weight: bold">
Its the web 2.0 way to write HTML?

>>5
back to wherever fucktards who don't know how to quote come from, please.

>>6
I know how to add a signature. Should i use it?

>>6
back to wherever fucktards who don't know how to add signatures come from, please.

>>6
That place is called /prog/.

>>It's surprising, but I've been using HTML for a significant portion of
>>my life and I don't know the difference. I was reading the guidelines for
>>article submissions to Evolt, and it was talking about <strong> defining
>>structure and <b> defining style. The same went for <em> and <i> tags.

Think of three different situations:

  - a web browser.

  - a blind person.

  - a palm pilot.

"Bold" is a style - when you say "bold a word", people basically know that
it means to add more ... .. "ink" around the letters until they stand out
more amongst the rest of the letters.

That, unfortunately, means nothing to a blind person. And on Palm Pilot's
and other PDA's, text is already bold because screen resolution is small
enough to make squinting a pain in the ass. You can't bold a bold without
screwing something up.

"Bold" is a style - we know what "bold" is supposed to look like.

"Strong" however is an indication of what something should look it.
"Strong" could (and often does) mean "bold" in a browser, but it could also
mean a lower tone for a speaking program like Jaws (for blind people). And
strong on a Palm Pilot may be an underline (since you can't bold a bold).

A quick explanation, but hopefully understandable. "Bold" is a style. HTML
was never meant to be about styles. Do some searches for "Tim Berners Lee"
and "the semantic web". <strong> is semantic - it describes the text it
surrounds ("this text should be stronger than the rest of the text you've
displayed") as opposed to describing HOW the text it surrounds SHOULD BE
DISPLAYED ("this text should be bold").

>>10
http://c3.64.1343.static.theplanet.com/archive/Week-of-Mon-20010521/032901.html

>>11
If you were in front of me right now I'd break your fucking nose. I don't care if you are a man, woman or fucking single celled amoeba. If all you can do is call people out, I suggest you fuck off and die.

>>12
Call out?

It is the difference between /textbf and /emph - one is guaranteed to always highlight, the other has semantic meaning.

>>10
So why does <b> even exist then? Or, better, why not throw away <strong> and declare that <b> can be represented by an underline or a lower tone in certain mediums?

>>15
<b> doesn't exist anymore. It was superseded entirely by <strong>, but some idiots didn't get the memo, which is why quirks mode tends to exist.

>>16
<b> doesn't exist anymore.
So where should I get back to now?! Oh, wait, never mind...

wtf is /B/

>>17
Back to /strong/, please.

>>17
>>18
I see what you guys did there!

>>20
MY ANUS?

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