Anne made me look at Matt, who had me look at Drew, who made me decide to do this:
From a book called Woordenboek Duits from Lekturama:
- bevreemding
- Befremdung w
Ok, so I cheated. It is not a sentence. The problem is, a dictionary usually doesn't have sentences on page 23, let alone a fifth one — at least this one doesn't. Then again, if I were to go grab another book to avoid this problem, it would no longer be the nearest, and I think that would be cheating more.
This is one of the extremely rare cases I use i instead of em or cite or font-style: italic — this might very well be the single one occurrence of it on my entire site. Why did I do it? Because the semantic elements that render text italic by default and cross browser, have semantics that would be out of place in this particular case, and I think <span style="font-style: italic"> is redundant and stupid.
2 comments so far.
:-)
I'm still wondering if I should use a SPAN with a good CLASS name when I come across this kind of content.
Posted by: Anne on April 18, 2004, at 10:44
As long as <i> is a valid element (as in, not deprecated), I'd say no — a span with class has no more or less meaning than a simple i. The only advantage of a span with class is that you can add some meaning via a HTML meta profile, but that doesn't really weigh up to the two advantages of i (being the number of bytes that is saved and the fact that it is more widely supported), in my opinion. By the way, welcome. =)
Posted by: ACJ on April 18, 2004, at 18:36