How is <div class="bold-text">bold</div> (or similar) any better than <b>bold</b>? I think it's just W3C making things different just for the sake of making things different - not because there is any practical purpose in doing so. Yes, you should be able to use font-weight: bold, but you should also be able to use <b>...</b>.

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Jason Rhinelander
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