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Posted by Helpful Harry on 02/16/07 23:11
In article <45d577c2$0$757$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>, Dylan Parry
<usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote:
> Helpful Harry wrote:
>
> > Since when is [strong] a "relationship between information
> > components"?!?!? It's telling the browser that the following text
> > shoulld be rendered in bold until it finds a corresponding [/strong]
> > tag.
>
> No it isn't. <strong> tells the browser that the following text should
> be strongly emphasised until it finds the corresponding </strong> tag.
> The specs might /suggest/ that browsers render this in bold, but
> browsers are not *required* to do so.
Whoosh!!
The sound of the point going right over your head. :o)
The fact that some browsers choose to render some tags slightly
differently was beside the point. tTe point was that the HTML tags are
NOT a "relationship between information component", they are a way to
tell a browser how to render a page on-screen.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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