On 7 Nov 2010, at 11:16 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> You don't. <i> and <b> should not be used.
This is the case when the intended semantics of the markup is that emphasis and
strong emphasis are to be indicated, and you don't care how the renderer
accomplishes it. Sometimes, however, the intended semantics are that the text
be rendered as the author intends. In legal citation, the name of the case MUST
BE IN ITALICS. When you say "Brown v. Board of Education," you don't mean to
say it emphatically, you mean to set it in italics. <i> and <em> mean different
things, and treating them as though <em> is just the New! Improved! Modern! <i>
is naïve and wrong.
I won't get into whether you should just punt it to <span> classes. Markup
should work even in a CSS world.
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