- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 12:24:56 -0400
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www International <www-international@w3.org>
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 17:02 +0100, Richard Ishida wrote: > The article Using <b> and <i> elements[1] was updated to reflect the > latest version of the text quoted from the HTML5 spec. In addition, > editorial changes were made to improve the readability of the > article and bring it in line with more recent templates. > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags Hmm, doesn't seem to take into account the use of markup for transcribing existing text, where the original author is not available, and that may include bold and italic text -- using em and strong for that is interpreting the text and may not always be appropriate; the new HTML definitions are also not appropriate, so relying on CSS and using span elements with class="bold" or class="italic" may be the way forward. Liam
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