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"In practice this separation of concerns is a prestidigitation, as – for example – HTML tags such as <EM> form part of the view, for they define appearance and
by Hovertruck 16y ago
"In practice this separation of concerns is a prestidigitation, as – for example – HTML tags such as <EM> form part of the view, for they define appearance and a simple HTML page can form the entire view if one chooses."
Wrong. This is what we Web Standards nerds are talking about when we say semantic markup. This is why we stress the use of <em> over <i>.
The <em> tag means emphasis. A word of importance that needs to be stressed. It has a default style that is italicized, in the same way that <ul>s have default list-style definitions. The <em> is easily styled through CSS just like any other tag.