Are the semantic inline elements really useful? (Re: [whatwg] What exactly is contentEditable for?)

[Aankhen]

On 8/31/05, Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper at bryant-greene.name> wrote:
> > Aside: Now that I looked at the source of the literature list, I noticed
> > that some titles of works were marked up as <em>. my hypothesis is that
> > after an upgrade Dreamweaver has started using <em> when pressing
> > command-i. Sigh. See http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i
> 
> http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/2005/08/31/b-and-i-are-bad-mkay/

...which says: "Of course, using <em> indiscriminately wherever you
would have used <i> is not semantic at all".

Aankhen