[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 56400] strong and b should be font-weight: bold, not bolder

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Tue Jan 31 21:19:57 PST 2012


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56400





--- Comment #7 from Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org>  2012-01-31 21:19:57 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> For what it's worth, generally if the spec disagrees with _all_ implementations it's the spec that should change, not the implementations.  Or so it seems to me.
>
> Note that this was explicitly a part of the spec flagged as being buggy, so I'm not sure why the WebKit behavior got changed to follow it...

Using font-weight: bolder as the default style of strong/b is problematic at best (e.g. when you nest b's and strong's) inside contenteditable region so I'm glad we changed our behavior.

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