How do you get comfortable with Dlang.org's Forum?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 02/23/2018 11:57 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> 
> Bold and italic is a wrong way to format text because it's visual 
> formatting that lacks semantic.

Bleh. That's actually my #1 favortie example for how the web world has 
gone completely, utterly insane.

For one thing, bold and italic have *always* carried a semantic meaning 
of "emplasis". That's the whole fucking reason anyone *ever* used bold 
or italic in the first place. (Well, that, and to turn late-90's emails 
and web pages into eye-cancer - which is exactly what happends when you 
treat "bold" and "italic" as instances of "style" instead of "emphasis").

Secondly, when has anybody EVER come up with a legitimate, practical 
application for programatically determining the emphasised portions of a 
sentence? Not even the content-thief sites can make any use out of THAT 
psuedo-"semantic web" clue.