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          <bug_id>9143</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-02-25 10:20:30 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>The b element lacks encouragement to use classes (cf i element)</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:45:56 +0000</delta_ts>
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          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
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          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element</bug_file_loc>
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          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
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          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
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    <bug_when>2010-02-25 10:20:30 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element

Comment:
I notice that under the definition for the-i-element it says &quot;Authors are
encouraged to use the class attribute on the i element to identify why the
element is being used&quot;, but there&apos;s no similar text for b. Given the Note on
both, it seems you&apos;d want to mention classes to enable CSS styling on
the-b-element too

Posted from: 221.191.254.72 by w3.org@boblet.net</thetext>
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    <commentid>32703</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Oli Studholme">w3.org</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-26 14:54:14 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>In addition, none of the b element examples and only one of two of the i element examples actually use classes. It would be good to add something like these to the b examples
* class=&quot;component&quot; (or part-name)
* class=&quot;object&quot;
* class=&quot;opening-text&quot; (or lede, lead, intro, opening-phrase etc)
and to the second i example
* class=&quot;dream&quot;

Finally with the lede sentence example you might want to change it to &lt;b&gt;Six abandoned kittens&lt;/b&gt; have, as itd be more appropriate to use &lt;strong&gt; (it looks like a summary of the article which would be more important), &lt;p class=&quot;lede&quot;&gt;, h2 + p {}, or h2 p:first-of-type {} to embolden the entire paragraph.</thetext>
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    <commentid>34100</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-03-29 21:47:27 +0000</bug_when>
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I&apos;ve added a similar paragraph to the &lt;b&gt; section.

I haven&apos;t added class=&quot;&quot; to each example, as it is not the case that every use would need a class. For example, most of the &lt;b&gt; element cases are just using it to mean &quot;keyword&quot;, which is basically the generic meaning of the element. Similarly, some of the &lt;i&gt; cases (e.g. the dream sequence) are just using it to mean &quot;alternate voice&quot;, which is the generic meaning.

I haven&apos;t changed the lede example because that&apos;s how the BBC have it. Using CSS only wouldn&apos;t necessarily be the right solution here, since the lede is its own thing whether the document is styled or not.</thetext>
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    <commentid>34101</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-03-29 22:10:04 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4895&amp;to=4896</thetext>
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