- From: Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:58:23 -0700
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Well, FWIW, when I see an <em> tag, I mentally think "italic or bold". I agree that it's a mistake to assume anything specific about it, and I think different locales should do whatever is appropriate. Still, I think most HTML clients are going to be applying italic, and bold as runner-up. -Christopher On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:33 PM, John Hudson wrote: > Unless otherwise specified in the CSS, e.g. for writing systems for > which there is no 'italic' tradition or for which slanted text is not > part of standard typography, in which case 'em' might be represented by > weight variance, some other secondary style or even, as in traditional > German fraktur typography, by a increase in letterspacing. > > The presumption that em = italic is quite eurocentric.
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