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    <p>Personally I'm happy with this state — there are some conventions (semantics) around "small print" and that tag works quite nicely for it. If I said "read the small print" in a conversation, that would make sense, but "read the big print" and you'd be thinking "what's 'big print'?" I'm happy to see big go (never use it) and small stay (use it often).</p> <p>I don't personally use b, finding strong suits my needs there. But there are cases where you want text italicised but not emphasised. If it's emphasis, I use EM. If it's a citation, I use CITE. If it's some other italics convention, I don't want to misuse EM or CITE.</p> <p>Wikipedia has some notes on when to use italics, and you'll find some notes here on the various HTML tags that could be used with those examples: <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Guide/italics#General_Examples" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Guide/italics#General_Examples</a></p> <p>Feel free to debate any or all examples. It was just my stab at it. Some are straightforward (e.g. use of EM), others are somewhat ambiguous. I prefer to use I for italics rather than choose (a) EM, where that would be misuse or (b) SPAN with font-style italic, which carries NO semantic meaning.</p> <p>The fact is there are semantics attached to use of italic test (in English at least) and HTML does not provide custom elements to deal with all of them, nor does it need to imho. I is a suitable middle ground.</p> <p>And for anyone who dislikes using it, you never have to! It's not mandatory :)</p>
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