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Originally Posted by Rand Brittain
someone told me a long time ago that <b> was deprecated. It's lately become clear to me that this was incorrect and I should probably be using <strong>.
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It was depreciated and then un-depreciated. They (Web Standards) then decided <b> is literally
bold and <strong> is semantic, but always rendered
bold unless the CSS does something different. They can be the same via CSS.
It's alleged than some screen readers differentiate between <b> and <strong>, though mine don't!
It's likely you can just search and replace if you feel you need to change it.
Note that while ebooks use HTML and CSS largely the same way as web pages, they are not web pages.
Also a Chapter Heading might not be using <strong> or <b> but an H class. Probably shouldn't be using <b> or <strong> directly. Arguably only a word or phrase inline in a styled (via CSS) paragraph would directly have <b>, <i> and the semantic alternatives.