Posted by Andy Dingley on 02/01/06 22:46

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:42:16 -0500, John Salerno
<johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

>Really? I thought tags like <i> and <b> weren't recommended anymore
>because of CSS?

Only when they're used for "random decoration". Italicising of latin in
scientific terms (not just taxon names) has such an established
precedent that they have adequate implied semantics to justify their
use. But put the class on there too.

They're also (unlike <font>) merely "not recommended", rather than
formally deprecated. They're part of HTML 4.01 Strict and tehy always
will be - they might not survive into HTML 5+, but we're writing 4.01
today, not 5+. If you also annotate them with the class then any future
port to a different representation can be easy and automatic.

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