On Apr 23, 2005, at 10:49am, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Because the WP markup is layout markup, using
<i> is perfectly okay,
unfortunately... Because we editors are stupid, we do not deserve
semantic markup - that's what I was told more than once by the
developers.
But why do you think the semantics of <i> are really any different from
<em>?
Frankly, I think the whole i/em, b/strong thing was a mistake in the
original HTML spec. Each pair is really synonymous and having both is
redundant -- and the distinctions about when to use one verses the
other are completely artificial.
John Blumel