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bookman156 · 03-29-2016, 12:59 PM

Well, if we continue to use <i> and <b> then we should do so in the knowledge that we are only designing books to be read on a screen with eyes all the way into the future, and are taking no account of any re-purposing of this information.

Of course, all markup is arbitrary, and we could in future designate <i> not as meaning 'italic' but as meaning something else, perhaps it might come to mean 'indefinite' and then we can define it how we like in the CSS. Then everyone will be happy.

03-29-2016, 12:59 PM	#17
bookman156 Addict Posts: 368 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: none	Well, if we continue to use <i> and <b> then we should do so in the knowledge that we are only designing books to be read on a screen with eyes all the way into the future, and are taking no account of any re-purposing of this information. Of course, all markup is arbitrary, and we could in future designate <i> not as meaning 'italic' but as meaning something else, perhaps it might come to mean 'indefinite' and then we can define it how we like in the CSS. Then everyone will be happy. Last edited by bookman156; 03-29-2016 at 01:06 PM.