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Originally Posted by ElMiko
Talk about shutting the barn door after the horse has left... but I'm wondering if the deprecation of the <i> and <b> elements has any practical consequences in ebook design?
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Originally Posted by KevinH
Both the i and b tags are valid in html5 and are no longer deprecated.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Mostly it stems from the fact that <i> and <b> were deprecated in favor of <strong> and <em> so publishers either did one or the other. Later, mostly due to accessibility reasons, TPTB un-deprecated <i> and <b> and instead clarified the semantic difference and usage of one over the other.
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Since this seems to be a really common misconception, I want to point out that <b> and <i> have
never been deprecated in any released version of HTML or XHTML. <em> and <strong> were added in HTML 4 (as were similar semantic elements with default formatting such as <kbd>, <samp>, <var>, <cite>, and <dfn>), but <b> and <i> were still allowed because there are many cases where these don’t apply (ship names and so forth).