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taylorfausak on Dec 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slash: A markup language for styling text on iOS

Why make the markup HTML-esque and then provide an emph tag instead of em?

chrisdevereux on Dec 15, 2012 [–]

Good point! <em> would make a lot more sense.

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