10676 2010-09-22 15:08:26 +0000 I implies ITALIC, which is styling. Styling should be done with CSS, not with HTML markup 2010-10-04 14:56:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-i-element P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 39170 0 contributor 2010-09-22 15:08:26 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-i-element Comment: I implies ITALIC, which is styling. Styling should be done with CSS, not with HTML markup Posted from: 95.97.99.154 39867 1 ian 2010-09-29 06:14:15 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or some other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicized. It's not just presentational, and it is media-independent, which is what matters.