- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:40:33 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen writes: > On 08/23/2013 02:52 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > > It would be best to declare <cite> as a deprecated synonym for <i>, > > Yes (assuming that "deprecated" is interpreted as non-error but not > encouraged for new pages). Why even discouraged? Suppose I'm writing a new page which features a title of a work, and I wish it to be denoted as such. I could just use <i>, but the site may also (or may later) be using <i> for things that aren't titles of works -- and I wish to be able to style titles independently of other italic phrases. Obviously <i class=title> would work fine. But so would <cite>. What's the advantage in picking <i class=title> over <cite>, given <cite> already exists and is supported in user agents? (Note, I'm not saying this would be sufficient reason for minting <cite> if it didn't already exist.) Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
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