Yeah, I think were probably done on this topic. The point is that the scientific community's need for italicisation of species names IS a visual one and it predates the web by centuries. A wishy-washy <em> or a span is wrong in this case as the goal is to specifically italicise not emphasise or otherwise separate from the flow of text.
If that means I code these pages in the perfectly acceptable HTML 4.01 for the next x0 years, so be it. Let's not go down that road now. I maintain the need for both the literal <i> (supported as long as I have been writing HTML and that's 9 or 10 years now and LYNX was still fairly popular if not dominant) and the semantic <em> (which we do in fact generally use for this blowing away the argument but not the need and I'm planning a serious discussion with Russ about changing back to what I now believe to be the more correct <i> for this purpose). P ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
