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: ... "