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Originally Posted by grannyGrumpy
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought that <i> and <b> were being deprecated, and that we were encouraged to use <em> and <strong> (I usually style these in the CSS as italic and bold, respectively). I would rather use the concise <i> and <b>, but not if it means they will fail some years down the road. Although, I guess they could be styled in the CSS as well:
i {font-style: italic}
I also don't quite get the usage of blockquote. What is the advantage of blockquote over a div? Other than getting "default" blockquote styling. Wouldn't it be just as easy to style a div for what is required? I'm sure I am overlooking the obvious here.
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You can always use a div. I have seen automatic tools that use div everywhere. While it may work it is impossible to understand. Semantically correct code files are much easier to work with and much easier to understand. The less div's the better. Besides div does not support the semantics and syntax of quoting the author source. Although in ePub 2 it is unlikely that that will get displayed in a meaningful way in most readers.
Dale