r job, the <dfn><abbr
    title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></dfn> specifications are not exactly George R. R. Martin-level
    reading material.</p>

  <p>Now to the <code>mark</code> element. This has a few useful applications:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>useful for marking up interesting things in quotations (without altering the styling of text, eg to italic)
    </li>
    <li>drawing attention to specific parts of pre-formatted text (eg code snippets)</li>
    <li>for marking up search results (eg th