MDN's "interpretation" of <i> has…
It’s not an MDN interpretation; this has been part of the HTML5 spec since day 1.
I linked to a 12 year-old article earlier in this thread [1] describing this very thing when HTML5 was new.
It’s not an MDN interpretation; this has been part of the HTML5 spec since day 1.
I linked to a 12 year-old article earlier in this thread [1] describing this very thing when HTML5 was new.
The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or
otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different
quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an
idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship
name in Western texts.