I recently started a Twitter discussion with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks on the relevance and usefulness of the <small></small> tag. I’ve had this same debate with co-workers on why one would still use <small></small> over just using a <p></p> or <span></span> with an appropriate <class></class> or <id></id> to define the “smallness” of the tag. The one thing we both noticed is that no one uses the <big></big> tag anymore, so why should anyone use the <small> </small> tag? This seems to be only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to determining which element to use for an intended result. Let’s look at a few more instances of controversy in the realm of standards and semantics on the web.

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I’m going to MAX!
This will be the first time I’ve attended a professional conference, and I’m very excited to meet some of my peers in the Flash community and get all I can from the seminars. Really cool stuff like Next Gen ActionScript, Art of Encoding Video, and Advanced CSS. I can’t wait. The Flash 8 authoring software in Studio 8 is awesome and it’s going to be really cool to see what other people are doing with it.