[whatwg] the cite element

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Sep 16 04:38:07 PDT 2009


On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 09:16 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson:
> > Names aren't generally styled, certainly not in italics, so that isn't the 
> > problem solved.
> 
> Important names are sometimes styled through use of small-caps, though 
> it may be that this is an older / rare convention and not applicable 
> here.

The spec suggests the <b> element for this particular use case, and has an 
example of this. Search for the two occurrances of "gossip".

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