Slash

In the discussion section of the comments, use of the HTML italic <i>
works fine. However, this same comment on the user page (/~user) causes
the italicized word to show up as quoted (I think?)

The comment is here
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297287&cid=28637993 and the italicized
word is 'better' in the second sentence of the last paragraph of the
comment. If I go here http://slashdot.org/~horatio/ and view the same
comment, the word "better" is alone on the line, with a vertical bar
preceding it - as if the word is being quoted.

If it matters (since you asked), the screen resolution on the windows
system is 1280x1024 no special font/layout settings. Just standard FF
settings. The screen resolution on the mac is the MBP native 1280x800.

I first noticed this in FF3.0.11 on Windows XP x64. It appears to be the
same on my Mac running FF3.0.11.