G'day
That's a very curious thing for the W3C to publish. I am not aware of
any HTML standard in which b and i are deprecated. Can anyone cite
such a declaration?
Cant find one myself. The closest is:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15./2 (which talks
about some "font style elements"):
//Although they are not all deprecated
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/conform.html#deprecated>, their use is
discouraged in favor of style sheets./
/
/So tt,i,b,big and small are not deprecated while strike, s and u *are*
officially deprecated.
Either way, as standards advocates, I believe we *should* avoid these
(and other) presentational elements and attributes in our (x)html,
whether deprecated or not.
Regards
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Bert Doorn, Better Web Design
http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/
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