On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> You could use <span style="font-weight: bold">, but what's the point of
>> that?
> 
> Because it would be correct HTML.

It's foul HTML... The whole point is that you say what you mean, not
what it should look like.

> 
>> Using <b> and <i> where what you really want is to make it bold and
>> italic isn't deprecated.
> 
> Incorrect, they are deprecated exactly for that reason, because the
> HTML should in no way imply the style and appearance of the content.
> Let CSS take care of that.  Of course, you could do <span class="i">
> and <span class="b"> instead, to make it neater.  And it would follow
> the standard too.

It isn't deprecated.

Conrad
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