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Originally Posted by Quoth

Google, Mozilla etc lost the plot ages ago. They shouldn't be involved with Web Standards. Nor should Apple or Microsoft.

Kobo certainly doesn't. Nor does W3C.

It's obviously a stupid, often not implemented addition.

A mild disagreement:

W3C screws up a lot of stuff, too. Naming the base file "index.htm[l]"; demanding that italics be signaled with "em" or "emphasis" when italics often carry meanings other than emphasis (for example, a signal that something is a quotation in a language other than the main language of the page/book); inconsistencies in "what is a valid 'id=' selector" that changed twice between HTML3 and HTML5; carryover of some, but not all, font stylings across paragraph breaks and table cells; operator overloading of double-quotation marks that creates massive opportunities for failures; I could go on for a while.

Standard-setting should never be done by a captured/capturable/conflicted organization. That certainly includes Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple... and Kobo and W3C... not to mention two Netherlands-based media conglomerates who tried to force adoption of their in-house idiosyncracies as standards in the last round... I'm just saying that one should assume that a seemingly-neutral standard-setting is often less neutral than it seems, and that one shouldn't blindly accept those "standards" as in users' best interests.

[Quoth]

The italics and bold were depreciated and then that was reversed as semantic emphasised and strong isn't always true.
Italics indeed have many uses though bold not as many.

Standard-setting should never be done by a captured/capturable/conflicted organization. That certainly includes Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple... and Kobo and W3C... not to mention two Netherlands-based media conglomerates

Yes.
And epub should never have been put in with the people setting standards for browsers. Too much emphasis on Web stuff and things like footnotes, page numbers, headings, footers etc basically ignored.