Should I use i tag for icons instead of span

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To display icons, both Facebook's HTML and Twitter Bootstrap HTML (pre-v3) use the I tag.

However, according to the HTML5 specification:

The I element represents a span of text in a different voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicized.

Why are they displaying icons with the I tag? Isn't this a bad habit? Is there something I'm missing here?

I'm using span to display icons, and it appears to be working for me so far.
Aug 16, 2022 in HTML by Deepak
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