Bah. I just checked my facts; it seems that XHTML 1.1 restores <b> and
<i>, and so does 1.0 strict. Apparently no one feels strongly either way.
Cheers,
Ivan
Ivan Krstic wrote:
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<b> and <i> are deprecated; neither exists in XHTML 1.0 basic or XHTML 2.0.