Re: AuthConfReq: Presentational Markup

Tab Atkins Jr., Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:40:20 -0700:

> [...] Widely-used mistakes still have to be supported, but
> we can still say "Hey, this was a mistake.  Don't use it anymore.".
> 
> Doing anything else is abdication of our duty to move the web forward.

If you were consistent, then you would at the very least insist on 
using <span style="line-through"> or something like that, as the 
replacement for <strike>.

However, you instead suggest that we can just re-interpretate <del> as 
an element with both stylistic and editorial semantics and use that 
element instead.

Thus, all that is left in your justification for removing <strike> is 
an economical one - you think we can do with fewer elements.
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:07:15 UTC