Where is my question about?
It is in relation to the list of HTML tags of which have now been ditched as from HTML5.

These tags being the old HTML style tags of font, tt, b, etc.

How I take it is, in recent HTML 4, they have been given the status of 'outdated' in a very harsh term. but now, they are going one strong step more than that, they are going to be dropped all together and therefore any strict browser will simply not support them.


What I ask about them is...

What exactly will happen to browsers who choose to go HTML5 strict?

Are there plans to re-allocate these tags with new meanings, like b could become like to mean a second section of the page like 'section id=b' perhaps. Or, will they be for-ever held in reserve for backward compatability issues?

Would it be just that, text between two B tags will just be 'not boldised' by deafult?

If I had a website with B tags, because I want them to boldise a line of text, and lets say I want to keep them, would I be able to fix them by doing this following bit of CSS
.... B {font-weight:bold}

Would that be enough to ensure that my browsers will continu to do text between b tags in bold?

This is not something you'll need to worry about when supporting major browser for quite a number of years. My understanding is that in the event that a browser does not support a tag, you can through the javascript command of createElement define the tag and then apply a style to it.

they are going to be dropped all together and therefore any strict browser will simply not support them.

IF the document is using a HTML5 DTD

The DTD defines the rules a document should be parsed and rendered with. The browser/user agent should apply the rules and properties as stated in the DTD NOT some arbitrary rules made by the browser developer.

If <b> does not exist in the DTD applied to the document then it should be ignored for that document ONLY.