I'm bored...

David Stone

Nobody's posting anything. So I decided to ask a question. When you bold text or italicize it...which set of tags do you use? 1)

and

or 2)

and

I use the second 'cause Microsoft says to. :-D David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

Christian Graus

I'm interested - I write HTML every day, and I did not know the second set. ( It's hardly my forte, I tend to get mostly the COM/C++ stuff at work as that is what I am good at, but I do write some asp as well ) Where and why do Microsoft say the second set is preferred ? Christian I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002

Mauricio Ritter

David Stone wrote: I'm bored... Not just you... :) David Stone wrote: So I decided to ask a question. When you bold text or italicize it...which set of tags do you use? Choice 1 cuz u have to type less :) Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :beer: The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward. :beer:

Tim Smith

I use the first because I am ANTI-MICROSOFT. STRONG and EM are just evil html tags set forth by Bill Gates to take all of our computing freedom away. Well, actually, I use B/I because I am lazy. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

Martin Marvinski

Christian Graus wrote: I tend to get mostly the COM/C++ stuff at work as that is what I am good at :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Just kidding. ;P After a poor performance in London in 1899, Steinitz went insane and died a year later on August 12, 1900 at Wards Island, N.Y.

Christian Graus

*grin* let me rephrase. My asp sucks. :-) Christian I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002

Jeremy Falcon

Depends on context. I used to go the and route b/c MS always did that with things like FrontPage, but a couple of years back I switched to and when I want bold and italics because there is no guarantee the other browsers will render the tags the same. It just so happens to be represented as the same, but it could be different. Like, maybe in some whacked-out browser could be a different color. I haven't seen this, so this is theory. Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
xenophobic Xanthippe – xerophthalmic Xanadu Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?

Martin Marvinski

Christian Graus wrote: My asp sucks How can that be? ASP is the easiest thing MS has! It's even easier than VB.:rolleyes: After a poor performance in London in 1899, Steinitz went insane and died a year later on August 12, 1900 at Wards Island, N.Y.

Jeremy Falcon

I'm sure CG meant to say, "I code ASP mad hacker, leet style. My super phat skillz will phuck the world up of any lamer trying to stop da code." ;) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
xenophobic Xanthippe – xerophthalmic Xanadu Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?

Christian Graus

I'm not even sure what that means...... :P Christian I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002

Christian Graus

Martin Marvinski wrote: How can that be? ASP is the easiest thing MS has! It's even easier than VB. It's easy, but it's also limited. Until a few months ago I had never done it, and I still don't do it much. So the problem is not that it is hard, but that I'm still learning how best to do it. Christian I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002

Erik Westermann

I use both interchangeably, just to confuse others ;) Essam - Author, JScript .NET Programming
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realJSOP

Because Microsoft wants to own the standard. They also want to own the standard we all know as "day" and "night". However, significant evidence that "day" and "night" have both been happening for a considerable amount of time before Microsoft became incorporated is placing a speed bump in their plans. Don't be fool, though. The [Micorosft] lawyers think they might have found a loophole. "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio.

Jon Sagara

Actually, for a while, I used

where I had defined bold to be font-weight: bold;. I guess I thought I was special or something. Now I mainly use . :) Jon Sagara "These rules could get someone killed, but they're good for academic use." -- one of my professors.

Mike Osbahr

Can you mix them? Started with i, ended with em. Starts strong but finishes with a little b. :~ Guess not :( >>>-----> MikeO

Andrew Peace

First choice: / and /; as was mentioned above, less typing. -- Andrew.

William E Kempf

Any browser that doesn't support EM and STRONG are non-conforming and should be avoided. It would be more appropriate to bash such browsers and the company/individuals that create them then it is to bash MS. William E. Kempf

William E Kempf

<rant> I despise MS bashing (or bashing of any company or individual for that matter). In this case the bashing is doubly offensive because it's unwarranted to the topic. </rant> STRONG and EM are standard tags specified by the W3C. See here. As far as I know MS had nothing to do with the adoption of these tags, and the recommendation to use them instead of and is made by the W3C, not by MS, no matter if the MSDN text gives you the impression it comes from MS or not. Way too many people in this thread think this is a MS thing, which indicates they really don't understand the standard that they are supposedly defending against MS's "evil influence". The bashers are, once again, too quick on the draw. William E. Kempf

Daniel Turini

Christian Graus wrote: Where and why do Microsoft say the second set is preferred ? Don't know, but anything that only works in IE should be preferred by MS :) I would do the same thing. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

Henry Jacobs

The reason and are recommended over and is because they to not mislead the author into believing the specified text will be in bold or italics. The web designer could use CSS to make text all lower-case and overlined in purple :).