[Bug 12154] b and strong are font-weight: bolder in implementations, not font-weight: bold

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12154

Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name> 2012-01-11 00:33:53 UTC ---
All fair points.  My reservation #3 from comment #6 remains, though.  Allowing
more than one bold weight is a nice feature for typography enthusiasts, just
like font-variant-alternates: historical-forms and such.  But I'm pretty sure
that if you took a survey of random web authors, they wouldn't expect
<b><b>foo</b></b> to be bolder than <b>foo</b>, because they wouldn't have
heard of the concept of multiple weights of bold.  <b>, <i>, and <u> should
mean the same thing as the "B", "I", and "U" buttons in word processors,
because that's the only exposure most people have to text styling.

I wonder if Microsoft has an opinion here?  I'm CCing Adrian Bateman; perhaps
he can forward it to someone appropriate.

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