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Originally Posted by Artha
The same way <center> was removed from the specifications also <i> and <b> should go away.
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<i> and <b> are part of XHTML (EPUB2) and they made it into
HTML5 (EPUB3). Also they are not marked as deprecated in either.
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Originally Posted by Artha
They mark a particular way of showing things. And that is up to the CSS.
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That is entirely how you want to look at it. The fact of the matter <i> and <b> are valid tags for adding italic and bold.
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Originally Posted by Artha
So far <em> defaults to <i> on all browsers I have tested and <strong> to <b>.
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This is how many browsers render the tags but <i> had different meaning than <em> and <b> has different meaning than <em>. See descriptions for
b,
strong,
i, and
em to see that each of these has a distinct meaning.
<em> for example does not guarantee italic text it only says that the test should be emphasized. The meaning of emphasized is up to the renderer. Now quoting the description for <em>:
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Originally Posted by http://www.december.com/html/x1/element/em.html
Nesting an em inside of another element like b or i may or may not display bold, emphasized text.
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So, again, using <em> does not guarantee that the text will be italic. Hence the use of the <i> which specifically denotes the text should be italic.