[whatwg] The m element

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Wed Feb 7 21:31:52 PST 2007


Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> In what way, apart from denoting that something is particularly relevant within 
> a phrase in a given context, does emphasis change the meaning of something?

The spec gives a good example showing how it changes the meaning.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-em

> Strong provides a strong emphasis, no?

Strong denotes importance (see the spec).  This is a change from HTML4, 
but HTML4 didn't really define the difference between emphasis and 
strong emphasis anyway.

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Lachlan Hunt
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