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Originally Posted by bookman156
Of course, people will inevitably fall back into the lazy use of the <em> tag, thinking of it as a better italic tag, and so using <em> to get italic for book titles when they should be using <cite>. No-one's perfect. But head-in-the-sandness never helps.
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And that is not right either. A title is not the same as a citation, so the use of <cite> would also not be correct and not better than <i>. Here you will use the wrong semantics.
The current standard only knows a limited set of semantic tags. I do agree that it is better to split semantics/structure from layout. However, <i> and <b> can mean so much more than <em> or <strong>. So much, that actually the 'emphasis' or 'strong' would not be suitable at all. To fully replace that by semantics, you would need a whole lot more. So, you would need to resort to stylesheet classes to give the semantic value to the actual text.