Re: [css3-fonts] @font-face matching and font-style descriptor

Well, FWIW, when I see an <em> tag, I mentally think "italic or bold". I agree that it's a mistake to assume anything specific about it, and I think different locales should do whatever is appropriate. Still, I think most HTML clients are going to be applying italic, and bold as runner-up.

-Christopher


On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:33 PM, John Hudson wrote:

> Unless otherwise specified in the CSS, e.g. for writing systems for 
> which there is no 'italic' tradition or for which slanted text is not 
> part of standard typography, in which case 'em' might be represented by 
> weight variance, some other secondary style or even, as in traditional 
> German fraktur typography, by a increase in letterspacing.
> 
> The presumption that em = italic is quite eurocentric.