[whatwg] strong and em difference not clear

[Peter Michaux]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Edward O'Connor <hober0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The HTML 5 spec doesn't give clear guidance on the choice between
>> strong and em tags.
>
> The spec distinguishes between importance (<strong>) and emphasis
> (<em>) like so:
>
> "The placement of emphasis changes the meaning of the sentence. The
> element thus forms an integral part of the content."
>
> and
>
> "Changing the importance of a piece of text with the strong element
> does not change the meaning of the sentence."
>
> So, basically, putting <em> around different words in a sentence
> changes the sentence's meaning, whereas moving <strong> around in the
> same way doesn't alter the meaning of the text.
>
> Do you think that's sufficiently clear?

I suppose it is reasonably clear with these two sentences. I should
have attributed more attention to them.

Thank you,
Peter