Re: Proposed new article: Using <b> and <i> tags

On 06/25/2010 04:02 AM, Richard Ishida wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I pulled this together this morning from an old blog post I wrote
> and the HTML5 which resulted from that.
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags.en.php
>
> I believe (hope) it's non-controversial, so I'd like to propose
> that we agree to send out for wide review at the next i18n telecon,
> and publish about a week later.

That's a great article, however I would change the example of good
usage to better match the spec:

   # <em>..</em> and <i class="doctitle">...</span> and
   # <i class="foreignword">..</span>

should be

   | <em>..</em> and <cite>...</cite> and <i lang="fr">..</i>

<i lang="..."> can be assumed to be a foreign word, and styled appropriately

   :lang(ja) > i[lang] { font-style: normal; }
   :lang(ja) > i[lang]:before { content: "《"; }
   :lang(ja) > i[lang]:after { content: "》"; }

Also, I would drop this sentence:

   # Of course they could also have used span tags instead of the i or b.

since <i> is in fact more appropriate than <span> here: there is
a definite intention of typographically setting apart the text in
the element.

~fantasai

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