Only I don't want my text to be "strong", I want it to be bold, and I don't want my italicized items to me "emphasized", I bloody want them in italics.
I don't consider my bolds and italics to be mere style and much less I consider them mere suggestions.
Bold and italic are typographic conventions of author _intent_ (that is: semantics) with centuries of use. I put them there in purpose, and I don't want them converted to anything else via styling. Sure, someone can style "b" as "purple text with a yellow dotted underline", but I might as well make my _actual_ intention clear.
Outside of its proper context, "semantic" is just a BS notion that got popular with designers and co because it sounds sophisticated, giving rise to inane arguments similar to how many angels fit in the head of a needle.
I understand that, but when I open your page in lynx I don't want to read text without any formatting because there are no direct equivalents to "bold" or "italics".
I don't consider my bolds and italics to be mere style and much less I consider them mere suggestions.
Bold and italic are typographic conventions of author _intent_ (that is: semantics) with centuries of use. I put them there in purpose, and I don't want them converted to anything else via styling. Sure, someone can style "b" as "purple text with a yellow dotted underline", but I might as well make my _actual_ intention clear.
Outside of its proper context, "semantic" is just a BS notion that got popular with designers and co because it sounds sophisticated, giving rise to inane arguments similar to how many angels fit in the head of a needle.