[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3606: [B] and [I] buttons shouold insert bold and italic tags

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#3606: [B] and [I] buttons shouold insert bold and italic tags
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 Reporter:  nickshanks      |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.2      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.1      
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:           
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 Those new funky button things on the top of the Write Post input box don't
 insert the right HTML tags.

 There has been a lot of discussion about the benefits/failures of semantic
 <strong> and <em> and their visual counterparts, <b> and <i>. The general
 concensus was that for WYSIWYG editors to be inserting <strong> and <em>
 is wrong, because users have already done the conversion from semantic
 meaning to visual representation in their heads, and clicked the Bold or
 Italic button as appropriate. By outputting <em> when a user wants to, for
 example, give a book title is wrong, but users will still click the [I]
 button for italic styling, even if the book title now has <em> instead if
 another tag (such as <cite>) surrounding it.

 Basically by outputting <em> without knowing *why* the user wants italic
 text, you are breaking the semantics of the element, and just turning into
 a synonym for <i>.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3606>
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