[thelist] replace <b> with <strong> (why dont use b tag)]

James Aylard evolt at pixelwright.com
Wed Jul 31 12:16:00 CDT 2002


Erika, et al,

> want to give some visual scanning cues.  I used "strong" because "b"
> is deprecated.  Not sure how I feel about the visual effect... but
> why use a deprecated tag?

    The <b> element has _not_ been deprecated [1]. (In fact, of the commonly
used text-styling elements, only <s> and <u> have been deprecated.)
Hopefully we can deprecate this misconception before the end of this thread.
:)

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1

James Aylard




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