the mysterious mr. <b> (was [thelist] Style sheet problem!)

Atkins, Chris writes:
 > Adrian,
 > 
 > I couldn't give you a URI either, but I can tell you that the reason that
 > <strong/> is preferred over <b/> is for the very reason that you mentioned -
 > it gives control over "presentation" of the element to the user agent.

 > I read that stuff somewhere I think. :)

I would have bet my first born son on the <b> tag being deprecated in xhtml, but I can't seem to find anything that says that. Checking out the dtds for xhtml strict and transitional, it looks like <b> is just fine - you can find it under Inline Elements:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd

which means I'm going to be eating some crow around the office.

tasty crow.

- dwayne