No, on purpose. That was like a year and a half ago, I think.
...because?
To stop abusing semantic markup (such abuse renders the semantics meaningless).
Well, maybe you can point me to a previous discussion so we don't have to have the same discussion again, but I think it would be superior to use semantic markup. I'm sure everyone's aware of this already, but using visual formatting tags to represent emphasis is discouraged:
"The proper HTML elements should be used to mark up emphasis: EM and STRONG. The B and I elements should not be used; they are used to create a visual presentation effect. The EM and STRONG elements were designed to indicate structural emphasis that may be rendered in a variety of ways (font style changes, speech inflection changes, etc.)"
On 4/6/06, Omegatron 9ybf94w02@sneakemail.com wrote:
Well, maybe you can point me to a previous discussion so we don't have to have the same discussion again, but I think it would be superior to use semantic markup. I'm sure everyone's aware of this already, but using visual formatting tags to represent emphasis is discouraged:
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. If there isn't, then either solution is really equally bad. 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.
What's the specific problem that <I> tags are causing?
Steve
Omegatron wrote:
Well, maybe you can point me to a previous discussion so we don't have to have the same discussion again, but I think it would be superior to use semantic markup. I'm sure everyone's aware of this already, but using visual formatting tags to represent emphasis is discouraged:
And using semantic markup in a wrong way is even worse. There is no way to distinguish semantic and visual markup use of ''...''
greetings, Jakob
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