Has anybody ever made a website that used both and (or and ) on the same page for different purposes? (Other than the MDN page telling you that they're different elements.)
Discussion
nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw Purists would say and should be deprecated and use CSS for formatting. But then...
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/255366/why-are-the-b-and-i-tags-deprecated
"In HTML5 i and b are no longer deprecated. Instead, they are given semantic meaning. So they are now actually about semantics, and not about presentation.
As before, you use em to mark up emphasis: "The cat is mine." But you use i for almost all other cases where you would use italics in a printed work. For instance:
You use i to mark up taxonomic designations: ... "
nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw I did. And when CSS came around, I styled them differently.
But then I also used a non-monospaced font on a monochrome monitor to edit code, and styled comments with and constants with because I could (my default settings also made each indent level make the font size 10% smaller, so I seldom nested code very deeply), so I am almost certainly both a heathen and a heretic.
Does Font Awesome's repurposing of count?