[Bug 9919] Remove kbd, samp, and maybe var, like acronym; expand <code>/<tt>/<i> or whatever to replace them

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9919


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #5 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-09-08 07:12:19 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Yeah, they're not used much and should probably not have been
introduced. But I don't buy that they're going to cause any extra harm in the
future, unlike, say, <abbr>, which was actively causing harm on an ongoing
basis. IMHO removing these would just annoy people who use them (likely early
adopters and people who care about HTML, exactly the people we _don't_ want to
irritate), without actually measurably helping anyone else out.

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Received on Wednesday, 8 September 2010 07:12:21 UTC