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modified 11-Feb-15 0:30am.
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em is preferred since HTML 4.01. ≪I> has been there since before CSS. All tags are suggestions to the renderer and as such the suggestion is EMphasis. ≪b> should be replaced with strong also.
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You are all wrong. a <span style="font-style: italic"> is the way to go!! 
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Actually, I do agree with you. Styling should be in CSS.
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em is not a replacement for i, they have semantically different meanings. It's the specific scenario that dictates preference.
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The <i> tag is actually more appropriate here, since it is still the element to be used for typographically italicized text i.e. text that is just in italic without any semantics to it whatsoever. <em> is meant to be used for emphasis/stressing.
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szukuro wrote: <em> is meant to be used for emphasis/stressing
Exactly, and the browser should decide how to do that. Not every system can italicize; some may need to make the text blink instead. 
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Actually am 'icebow'. out walking in bright sun, high ish, on a cold day, and noticed an upside down rain bow in the sky. High up. Looking closer, noticed there were two circular rainbows around the sun, and off the top of each, a cup shaped inverted rainbow.
The inner icebow round the sun had two bright spots too. Here is th eclosest pic I can find to it:
https://nsidc.org/sites/nsidc.org/files/images//sun-dog-lg.jpg[^]
It was really quite funky.
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Cool!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Actually am 'icebow'
Halo[^]
Looks cool 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"ice bow" or gloriole, as your link says.
Why are people obsessed with naming things, and correcting other people?
Its called any one of a number of things, depending ion which language is used, and what any one individual decides to call it if what he comes up with is a comprehensible.
I think its common in people who only speak one language, they become fixated. As soon as you learn other languages, the concept of 'correct name' disappears entirely.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Why are people obsessed with naming things
That is the basis of communication, and hence, society. It is hard to warn about a lion in the bushes if you cannot name the thing.
Munchies_Matt wrote: As soon as you learn other languages, the concept of 'correct name' disappears entirely.
..three languages from this tongue. When does the concept disappear in my head?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I guess you are an exception then. (Unless you like to show off your English  )
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As per your own link, this is actually called a sundog.
I took a picture of one myself a few years ago. Not quite as fully-formed as the one you linked to, but you can see it's the same phenomenon. I really wish I could find it--if I remember correctly, I took a bunch of separate pictures then merged them all together with one of those photo stitching utilities.
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No, its 'actually' called an ice bow.
Let me post again what I posted above:
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ice bow, gloriole, parheile, Arc circumhorizontal...
Why are people obsessed with naming things, and correcting other people?
Its called any one of a number of things, depending ion which language is used, and what any one individual decides to call it if what he comes up with is a comprehensible.
I think its common in people who only speak one language, they become fixated. As soon as you learn other languages, the concept of 'correct name' disappears entirely. "
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Munchies_Matt wrote: No, its 'actually' called an ice bow.
Then I don't know why you call it an ice bow, link to a picture with "sundog" in its name, and reply to a message telling you it's a sundog that it's actually an ice bow. But you're right, you're free to call it whatever you want.
Munchies_Matt wrote: I think its common in people who only speak one language, they become fixated. As soon as you learn other languages, the concept of 'correct name' disappears entirely.
That can't be it then, as I'm actually French.
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dandy72 wrote: That can't be it then, as I'm actually French
Then you should know better. 
I found at least three names for it, sun dog didn't nearly describe it properly since most images of those don't show the colours of the rainbow, hence 'ice bow', which is an accepted name.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Then you should know better
Probably, but I'm as stubborn as can be.
As far icebow vs sundog vs other names...I don't know enough about the distinction to carry this conversation further.
BTW, I've found the pictures I had taken. How does one embed a link to an image here on CP if it's not hosted on some public location?
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Well, a link has to be public to be readable from CP anyway, so all you can do is put them on photobucket or some such.
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I'm guessing Chris is deliberately not allowing people to upload images directly to CP.
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Congrats. I've seen 22* halos and sundogs a few times but am zero for thirty*mumble* years on seeing any of the upturned arcs that can form at the same time.
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