As you can see there is support for <em> instead of the evil <i>,
<strong> instead of <b>, etc.
Yes, although qualified with "this generally means..." and "most clients should recognize this as..." As I recall, there were always differences between how browsers interpreted these. But I suppose if everyone implementing HTML support in Jabber clients is cribbing from this particular document, they'll all interpret these tags the same way :-)
Bold and italic are nice, but this still leaves open the issue of fonts, point sizes and colors. Otherwise it's a flashback to 1993 and Mosaic 1.0.
At this point I'm planning to use <em> and <strong> but also use <u> and <font> as necessary. (And I'll parse <b> and <i> if I receive 'em.) Cellphones can just ignore them.
—Jens
