[whatwg] Ongoing work on an editing commands (execCommand()) specification

[Markus Ernst]

Am 03.03.2011 20:53 schrieb Aryeh Gregor:
> I get the hand-editing argument.<b>  is much nicer to hand-edit than
> <span style="font-weight: bold">, and also fewer bytes.  But why would
> anyone want<span style="font-weight: bold">?

<p><b>Text</b></p> is even fewer bytes and more readable than <p 
style="font-weight:bold">Text</p>. So if you don't want to leave the 
choice to RTE authors I'd vote for element formatting where available.