"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com schrieb:

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".

To give another argument: '' is also used for example for book titles. In that case making it <em> is simply wrong, it should become <cite> instead. Because the software is unable to see when <em> and when <cite> is meant, we might as well make it <i>.

Andre Engels