The full name of this element suggests a visual presentation ("horizontal") and carries years of built-in presentational baggage from all existing browsers--some of which cannot be zeroed out or overridden. The HTML5 proposal for <hr> is no better.
The <separator /> tag from XHTML2.0 would be a much needed improvement. This new element is purely semantic, implies no presentation and carries no rendering baggage from years of browser and user abuse.
Please, please deprecate <hr>!
Darren Luvaas
Creative Director
1900 Seaport Blvd. 4th Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063
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