hixie: Don't force people to use <b> for speakers in conversations. (whatwg r3864)

hixie: Don't force people to use <b> for speakers in conversations.
(whatwg r3864)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3029&r2=1.3030&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3863&to=3864

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@@ -9070,7 +9070,7 @@
 &lt;/body&gt;
 <strong>&lt;/html&gt;</strong></pre>
 
-  </div><h3 id="document-metadata"><span class="secno">4.2 </span>Document metadata</h3><h4 id="the-head-element-0"><span class="secno">4.2.1 </span>The <dfn><code>head</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
+  </div><h3 id="document-metadata"><span class="secno">4.2 </span>Document metadata</h3><h4 id="the-head-element-0"><span class="secno">4.2.1 </span>The <dfn><code>head</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Implemented and widely deployed</i><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd>None.</dd>
    <dt>Contexts in which this element may be used:</dt>
    <dd>As the first element in an <code><a href="#the-html-element-0">html</a></code> element.</dd>
@@ -9112,7 +9112,7 @@
  &lt;BODY&gt;
  ...</pre>
 
-  </div><h4 id="the-title-element-0"><span class="secno">4.2.2 </span>The <dfn><code>title</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
+  </div><h4 id="the-title-element-0"><span class="secno">4.2.2 </span>The <dfn><code>title</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Implemented and widely deployed</i><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="#metadata-content">Metadata content</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Contexts in which this element may be used:</dt>
    <dd>In a <code><a href="#the-head-element-0">head</a></code> element containing no other <code><a href="#the-title-element-0">title</a></code> elements.</dd>
@@ -38407,22 +38407,22 @@
   up conversations, meeting minutes, chat transcripts, dialogues in
   screenplays, instant message logs, and other situations where
   different players take turns in discourse.<p>Instead, authors are encouraged to mark up conversations using
-  <code><a href="#the-p-element">p</a></code> elements, with the <code><a href="#the-b-element">b</a></code> element for marking
-  up the speaker, optionally separated from their lines with
-  punctuation. Paragraphs with their text wrapped in the
-  <code><a href="#the-i-element">i</a></code> element can be used for marking up stage
-  directions.<div class="example">
+  <code><a href="#the-p-element">p</a></code> elements and punctuation. Authors who need to mark
+  the speaker for styling purposes are encouraged to use
+  <code><a href="#the-span-element">span</a></code> or <code><a href="#the-b-element">b</a></code>. Paragraphs with their text
+  wrapped in the <code><a href="#the-i-element">i</a></code> element can be used for marking up
+  stage directions.<div class="example">
 
    <p>This example demonstrates this using an extract from Abbot and
    Costello's famous sketch, <cite>Who's on first</cite>:</p>
 
-<pre>&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Costello&lt;/b&gt;: Look, you gotta first baseman?
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Abbott&lt;/b&gt;: Certainly.
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Costello&lt;/b&gt;: Who's playing first?
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Abbott&lt;/b&gt;: That's right.
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Costello becomes exasperated.&lt;/i&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Costello&lt;/b&gt;: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Abbott&lt;/b&gt;: Every dollar of it.</pre>
+<pre>&lt;p&gt; Costello: Look, you gotta first baseman?
+&lt;p&gt; Abbott: Certainly.
+&lt;p&gt; Costello: Who's playing first?
+&lt;p&gt; Abbott: That's right.
+&lt;p&gt; Costello becomes exasperated.
+&lt;p&gt; Costello: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
+&lt;p&gt; Abbott: Every dollar of it.</pre>
 
   </div><div class="example">
 
@@ -38432,6 +38432,7 @@
    <pre>&lt;p&gt; &lt;time&gt;14:22&lt;/time&gt; &lt;b&gt;egof&lt;/b&gt; I'm not that nerdy, I've only seen 30% of the star trek episodes
 &lt;p&gt; &lt;time&gt;14:23&lt;/time&gt; &lt;b&gt;kaj&lt;/b&gt; if you know what percentage of the star trek episodes you have seen, you are inarguably nerdy
 &lt;p&gt; &lt;time&gt;14:23&lt;/time&gt; &lt;b&gt;egof&lt;/b&gt; it's unarguably
+&lt;p&gt; &lt;time&gt;14:23&lt;/time&gt; &lt;i&gt;* kaj blinks&lt;/i&gt;
 &lt;p&gt; &lt;time&gt;14:24&lt;/time&gt; &lt;b&gt;kaj&lt;/b&gt; you are not helping your case</pre>
    <!-- with thanks to http://bash.org/?854262 -->
 
@@ -38456,13 +38457,13 @@
    dialogue, allowing the user to return to the location of the
    footnote.</p>
 
-   <pre>&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Announcer&lt;/b&gt;: Number 16: The &lt;i&gt;hand&lt;/i&gt;.
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Interviewer&lt;/b&gt;: Good evening. I have with me in the
-studio tonight Mr Norman St John Polevaulter, who for the past few
-years has been contradicting people. Mr Polevaulter, why
-&lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; you contradict people?
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Norman&lt;/b&gt;: I don't. &lt;a href="#fn1" id="r1"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Interviewer&lt;/b&gt;: You told me you did!
+   <pre>&lt;p&gt; Announcer: Number 16: The &lt;i&gt;hand&lt;/i&gt;.
+&lt;p&gt; Interviewer: Good evening. I have with me in the studio tonight
+Mr Norman St John Polevaulter, who for the past few years has been
+contradicting people. Mr Polevaulter, why &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; you
+contradict people?
+&lt;p&gt; Norman: I don't. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="#fn1" id="r1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;
+&lt;p&gt; Interviewer: You told me you did!
 <em>...</em>
 &lt;section&gt;
  &lt;p id="fn1"&gt;&lt;a href="#r1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; This is, naturally, a lie,
@@ -38477,10 +38478,10 @@
    <p>In this example, a sidebar is given after a dialogue, giving it
    some context.</p>
 
-   <pre>&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Customer&lt;/b&gt;: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Shopkeeper&lt;/b&gt;: I'm sorry?
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Customer&lt;/b&gt;: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
-&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Shopkeeper&lt;/b&gt;: No no no, this's'a tobacconist's.
+   <pre>&lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="speaker"&gt;Customer&lt;/span&gt;: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
+&lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="speaker"&gt;Shopkeeper&lt;/span&gt;: I'm sorry?
+&lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="speaker"&gt;Customer&lt;/span&gt;: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
+&lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="speaker"&gt;Shopkeeper&lt;/span&gt;: No no no, this's'a tobacconist's.
 &lt;aside&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign
  nationalists frequented the streets &mdash; many of them Hungarians

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