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		Timwi on Aug 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm betting on HTML Yes, that was the mantra some 15–20 years ago. Then HTML 5 came out, in which <center> was indeed obsoleted, but <i>/<b>/<u> weren't and instead got a semantic meaning. (A semantic meaning which, admittedly, is subtle, borderline esoteric, so it's very rarely used as intended.)

psychoslave on Aug 2, 2023 [–]

Made me read https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags

I think that at this point I can keep my usual habit of avoiding them completely.

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