On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Darren Luvaas wrote: > > 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>! HTML5 actually uses <separator/> from XHTML2, it just spells it <hr> for backwards-compatibility reasons. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Sunday, 21 February 2010 05:08:46 GMT
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