Are the semantic inline elements really useful? (Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?) from Aankhen on 2005-08-31 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from August 2005)

From: Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:09:22 +0530
Message-ID: <ae697d05050831003918deba96@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/31/05, Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper at bryant-greene.name> wrote:
> > Aside: Now that I looked at the source of the literature list, I noticed
> > that some titles of works were marked up as <em>. my hypothesis is that
> > after an upgrade Dreamweaver has started using <em> when pressing
> > command-i. Sigh. See http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i
> 
> http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/2005/08/31/b-and-i-are-bad-mkay/

...which says: "Of course, using <em> indiscriminately wherever you
would have used <i> is not semantic at all".

Aankhen

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