On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
For '' and ''' we produce <em> and <strong> tags rather than <i> and <b>. Is this right or wrong?
Arguments against are presented by one of our own Wikipedians, claiming it's an abuse of semantic markup: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i
About the only argument in favor is "that's what UseMod did, and Wiki before it".
Did UseMod actually do it ? As far as I remember, UseMod did <i> and <b>, and it was changed to <em> and <strong> in Phase II.