[Mediawiki-l] Re: Rendering of italics

[Timwi]

Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> One thing I noticed after resurrecting the test suite: text in
> double tics is now rendered as "<i>" instead of "<em>".  Was this
> a consciously-made change, or just an error introduced into the
> parser at some point?

I used <em> when I rewrote the apostrophe-handling bit. It was later 
changed to <i> on the grounds that we use double-apostrophes for things 
like citations (should be <cite>), variables (should be <var>) as well 
as emphasis, so always using <em> was deemed inappropriate.

Timwi