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Re:Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter by mrpollo on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @01:58AM (#3537014)
yeah my best guess is that "i" for "icon", it's a good use, from the w3c "their use is discouraged in favor of style sheets." so I guess it doesn't really hurt no one, but the purists, or am I wrong?
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Re:Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter by intranation on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:42AM (#3537107)
`i` is for "italic", and that quote means that you should be using `font-style` instead of an HTML element to make your text italic.
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Re:Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter by rimantas on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @03:05AM (#3537152)
Bootstrap is kind of aimed for HTML5, and "Font Style Elements" form HTML 4.01 got a new life in this spec (including previously deprecated S and U), with redefined semantics. Using I for icon is still wrong even by new definition.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

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