9727 2010-05-13 15:34:02 +0000 We told people for years that I and B are a bad idea as they are only visual but hint at making things more prominent. Can we just let them die? 2010-10-04 14:47:21 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 35672 0 contributor 2010-05-13 15:34:02 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element Comment: We told people for years that I and B are a bad idea as they are only visual but hint at making things more prominent. Can we just let them die? Posted from: 83.71.175.163 37809 1 ian 2010-08-24 23:42:35 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: They have valid use cases.