In the same way that using semantic tags when all you
want is
formatting is equally discouraged. Ideally (perhaps) there would be
ways of indicating both semantics, and pure formatting.
You can still use <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> tags if that's
all you
mean, though I think that is rare.
If there
isn't, then either solution is really equally bad.
True.
I would say that
''italics'' are very rarely used for emphasis in our articles, and
much more commonly for simple formatting - names of albums,
symphonies, quotations etc. I could be wrong there.
Ah. It seems to me that emphasis is used more often than simple
formatting, and I was changing ''quote marks'' to <i>italic
tags</i>
in the few cases where it's appropriate, based on the way I learned
when I first started editing. Then I was looking through the source
code one day, and realized they were both being rendered as italics,
so I was confused.
So, if I understand correctly, a bunch of people were misusing
emphasis tags to mean italics, so someone changed the emphasis tags to
mean italics, and now people are misusing italics tags to mean
emphasis? :-)
: Are we going to change the dictionary definition colon markup to
render as CSS indentation now, since many people use it for
indentation?
What's the specific problem that <I> tags
are causing?
None at all from a practical standpoint. Just curious.