"bold" does not show up

In some browsers for some people it seems that the "bold font" HTML tag (whether entered via two underlines in autoformat, or as explicit HTML) gets ignored: it's in the generated HTML page but does not LOOK bold. Even the "this is bold" example here
http://v3.siteframe.org/document.php?id=139 does not look like bold in my browser... I've done a test: saved (from the browser) such an article (as it appears in a generated web page) into a local HTML file, then opened that: still no bold, despite no "style". Then I deleted from the file the stuff in the header, the bold appeared. It seems that the line that does it is the one that says

DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ...

- so why does it do that and how to fix it? Note that italic font (for example), unlike bold, works fine. In case it matters: the Siteframe version is 3.2.x and the browser is Opera 8.5 or 9.1 (same results).

CSS
by glen / at 18:25 on February 2, 2007

If it's in the generated page but does not show up, then it's either something in your browser settings or the CSS rules. For the record, it shows up just fine in Firefox 2.0 Mac/PC and Safari/Mac.

But how to fix?
by mbraner / at 20:37 on February 2, 2007

One friend with the same browser did see bold, so apparently browser settings matter. But there's nothing fancy in the settings, and I see bold all the time in other pages, and taking the mentioned line out of the generated HTML makes the bold appear in my settings too. And I can't control other peoples' settings - I already got one member of our site (besides me) complaining about this. Is there a way to make the generated pages not have that line, or modify what it says? (I think it's not the CSS because the saved copy (saved just the HTML file) renders without CSS (the "theme" disappears) but the bold still does not show until I take that line out.) Thanks!