JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8157724: Improve javadoc tag usage in java.math

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Tue May 24 19:07:37 UTC 2016


Hi Joe,

Yes, that is useful. I had not recalled seeing the emphasis tag before so I was curious as to the policy.

Thanks,

Brian

On May 24, 2016, at 11:59 AM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> As I understand it, if one is being pedantic about HTML tags, "<em>" is more of a semantic tag while "<i>" is purely typographical so there are cases where "<i>" should not be replaced by "<em>".
> 
> On 5/24/2016 11:44 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>> 
>> At new line 1902 and elsewhere, is <em/> preferable to <i/> in general? (Not a question pertaining only to this change.)




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