In response to Jason Kottke's post on semantics and markup, I thought I'd try out a new series here called SimpleQuiz (I know... but it's better than "Markup Quiz" or "Web Standards Quiz"). The objective is to ask some questions about markup and generate some discussion about preferred methods.
I may very well become either too busy or bored to continue these on a regular basis, but we won't know until we begin. The hope is that these questions and answers would become useful little bits of information. I also won't pretend to be the authority on any of these subjects. I may very well be asking the question because I'd like to hear how others would handle it as well. So here goes... the first one is a doozy. Sure it's incredibly obvious -- but we have to start somewhere, and should probably make no assumptions.
Q: Which of the following is more semantically correct? (For the title of a document)<span class="title">This is a Title</span><h1>This is a Title</h1><p><b>This is a Title</b></p>