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.
>
>> 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.
{{reference needed}}
You should use CSS instead of <b> and <i> but if the meaning is "make
this bold" (as is the case from mediawiki, where we can't infer any more
relationship), it is perfectly fine to use <b>. As opposed to <s>, which
*is* deprecated.
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