Presentational HTML – Semantically Useful or Deprecated?

[nathanchase]

Do you use the <small> tag in your designs? Or the <b> or <i> tags instead of <strong> or <em> anymore? I posted on my blog about this topic and I was curious to see what the rest of you thought about it.

[koewnet]

Using <small> is a very good way to point out the obvious – that it’s supposed to be small. Likewise for <big>. It’s also easier if you’re going to create a website that’ll work for mobile devices.

Try to turn off your CSS, and see the difference when you use <small>/<big>. If you don’t use the tags, you can disable the CSS on my weblog.

Why didn’t you mention <tt> in your blog post? Although it’s big-brother <code> rules town, the <tt>-tag is still in XHTML DTDs 8-)

[nathanchase]

"koewnet" wrote:

Why didn’t you mention <tt> in your blog post? Although it’s big-brother <code> rules town, the <tt>-tag is still in XHTML DTDs 8-)

There’s definitely a whole slew of tags to get into more debate over… It’s pretty frustrating not knowing whether to use <tt>, <code>, or <pre> when showing code in a post… everyone seems to have their favorite.

[koewnet]

<code> will usually be rendered in a monospaced font, but multiple spaces are collapsed, unlike in <pre>. This can screw up the spacing in your code if you want to provide more than one line.

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