On 2/15/14, 4:40 PM, Eric wrote:
I agree with Colin...I don't like them either. But, they do remain in HTML5
<http://html5doctor.com/i-b-em-strong-element/>
Eric
On February 15, 2014 at 5:47 PM Ezequiel Garzón <garzon.luc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Greetings to all,
I know this is highly subjective question, but am curious as to what people
think about this issue. Allow me to put forth a few questions, and you can
pick all of any of them. When the WHATWG describes the I element as "a span
of text in an alternate voice or mood", and the B element as "a span of
text to which attention is being drawn for utilitarian purposes", I'm
puzzled... wouldn't this be the role of a special class for the SPAN
element? I'm actually glad I and B are "survivors", but seeing that U and S
have been deprecated, it doesn't seem very consistent to keep these two
one-letter elements around. And, going back to my main question, do you
believe these two elements will be deprecated soon?
Speaking for myself, I find the <i> element particularly useful for marking up
words or phrases that are in a different language from surrounding text. An
example might be:
<p> ... as well as <i lang="la">vice versa</i>.</p>
Of course, for a language such as Japanese, where italic makes no sense, I'd
likely prefer to use a <span lang="ja"> instead.
--
Cordially,
David
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