I put the spaces in so they'd print on-screen. Took 'em out to post this, and no bolding. I don't get it. Ain't working for me and this time I (again) had to use < big > (without the spaces) to get a bold appearance. FireFox on an old XP machine...
That reminds me...I have been wanting to see if different browsers/old versions could be using/forced to use different encoding standards to view pages (ASCII vs. UTF-8 for example). Set in prefs??? On my “low priority “to do” list since the FR problems popped up. ;-)
BTW...what you posted...”(take out spaces) seems...” IS in bold on my browser (Safari)...perhaps your < B > is working, and you are just not seeing it on your browser???