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   Katie Gray 10:54 pm on March 12, 2013

   Well! thanks for informative article. I am working for Minneapolis Web Design firm now. I could easily have provided a bold version of the font for the headings but all that would have done is add bloat to the byte count and it wouldn’t have added one whit to the substance of what was being communicated. So question number one is: are you against letting the browser handle the bolding and italicizing in all instances?

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