Robby Jennings wrote:
I've found this list of depreciated tags http://www.html-reference.com/depreciated.htm which lists <strong> and <em> as depreciated. I thought the <b> tag would be depreciated.
Don't like the look of that page much. Must be old. Very vague, infers that HTML4.0 is new, doesn't mention doctypes... here's a better reference [1] - straight from the source, and no mention of deprecation for *any* of those four elements. Of course, that's HTML4.0. If you're planning to code to a flavour of XHTML, things change. There, <b> and <i> are definitely deprecated, but I think your source is wrong in saying that <strong> and <em> are also...
<b> and <i> are presentational, and so are considered to have no place in html markup. Personally, I use inline <strong> and <em> elements because they can be styled conventionally - or not, as a design requires - via css but still maintain a basic level of control over semantic emphasis within the text.
As a quick aside to the main issue, but staying with the theme of correctness, elements which are recommended not to be used are deprecated. Depreciation is what happens to your shiny new car/PC/camera/iPod the moment you take it out of its box. Kind of ironic that html-reference.com have this error embedded so deep it's in the filename...
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