I thought you were joking until I clicked the link.
Or are these actually becoming official standard names?
I'm truly enjoying the sheer absurdity of it all.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics....
> B: Renders as bold text style.
The element (and other style-related elements) were deprecated due to CSS. For b and i the strong and em elements were created as semantic alternatives. Now the b and i elements have been given specific semantic usage and are now not deprecated.
From https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.... (with _ added for the relevant section used by MDN):
> The b element represents a span of text _to which attention is being drawn_ for utilitarian purposes without conveying any extra importance and with no implication of an alternate voice or mood, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, actionable words in interactive text-driven software, or an article lede.
From https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.... (with _ added for the relevant section used by MDN):
> The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, _an idiomatic phrase_ from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.
Deprecated, but it will be back.