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by dragonwriter
3586 days ago
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The <i> tag in modern HTML does not mean "italics", though the examples given to illustrate its new semantics are all things conventionally set in italics. "The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts." [0] Its use for text-as-icon is arguably, despite obviously not being a use classically set in italics, within the defined semantics of the <i> tag. EDIT: Though FAs use isn't actually text-as-icon, it uses empty tag as an icon. That's not consistent with the semantics of the tag. [0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-i-... |
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