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Originally Posted by grannyGrumpy
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought that <i> and <b> were being deprecated, and that we were encouraged to use <em> and <strong> (I usually style these in the CSS as italic and bold, respectively). I would rather use the concise <i> and <b>, but not if it means they will fail some years down the road. Although, I guess they could be styled in the CSS as well:
i {font-style: italic}
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You are correct... However, I don't use <em> and <strong>. I know I can specify in the stylesheet how they must look like, but now it is up to the browser how to display them. I rather use <i> and <b>. The have been deprecated for a long time, but I don't see them going anytime soon.