- From: Bryce Fields <royalrodent@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:53:20 -0400
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Christoph P?per <christoph.paeper at crissov.de > wrote: > Jeremy Keith: > > > > The <hr> element is currently defined as "a paragraph-level thematic > break." I think <br> could be defined as "a text-level thematic break." > > That makes perfect sense. The only problem I see is existing content which > relies on consecutive ?br?s producing multiple line breaks, i.e. often a > paragraph-like appearance. (Although ?br?s were always intended to be > collapsed, browsers never did this.) Why not just list <br> along with the other obsolete elements instead of trying to rebrand it semantically? Let's face it. <br> is a pain to try to rationalize as a purely semantic element and any use you have for the element could probably easily be accomplished w/ other semantic code. Why not just call it obsolete and discourage authors and vendors from using it? (first post...be gentle...) :) ----- Bryce Fields www.royalrodent.com "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100805/2413ca38/attachment.htm>
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