On 12 May 2010 14:24, Conrad Irwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

How is bold and italic things you say?  Maybe my own language isn't
that nuanced.

>>> 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.

Okay, correct, but it is 'discouraged'.  They even removed them in
XHTML 2.0, not that anyone uses that.  Though, I don't think it is
going out of HTML5.

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