2023-05-25 UTC
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bkil Well, I'd say the explanation is just the opposite: browsers had chosen to underline links as it was not typically used for text markup. HTML didn't include any of i, b, or u in its first draft: https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html And while standardizing i, b, em and strong, had only mentioned underline as an optional or "possible" feature to implement https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866#section-5.7.1.3