- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:16:51 +0000
- To: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Lee Kowalkowski wrote: > Beats me, it seems to be based on the flawed assertion that del and > strike are not synonymous, but in fact they are. I genuinely do not understand how you can arrive at that conclusion. <strike> indicates that the element is "struck through"; <del> that it is "deleted". Just because (by convention) text can be shewn as having been deleted by being struck through doesn't make <del> and <strike> synonymous, any more than <strong> and <b> become synonyms simply because the classic HTML styling for strong emphasis is emboldening. <del> and <strong> are semantic; <strike> and <b> are purely presentational. Philip TAYLOR
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