[Mediawiki-l] Re: Rendering of italics

[Karl Eichwalder]

Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> writes:

> 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?

Because the WP markup is layout markup, using <i> is perfectly okay,
unfortunately...  Because we editors are stupid, we do not deserve
semantic markup - that's what I was told more than once by the
developers.

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