- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:19:26 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Cc: neil@bigpic.com, www-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson felt an urge to reveal at 9:27 PM -0000 on 12/17/97: > But my point is why isn't it deprecated while <S> and <STRIKE> are? They > fall under the same category and in fact TT has more elements already coping > with "screen output" and similar things! (eg, <CODE>, <KBD>, <SAMP>) And, if you think about it, <STRIKE> is really the only widely implemented way to indicate what is going to be covered by <DEL>. I personally believe that <STRIKE> did in fact have a logical basis (the idea being that this is text that was *struck*, hence strike-through), rather than a purely presentational one. Since EM and STRONG have long been available as alternatives to I and EM, it does cause one to wonder why they were so eager to <STRIKE>STRIKE</STRIKE> :) ------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] [ "It's well known that dead people are all sick ] [ because they're too depressing." ] [ -- from http://www.icemcfd.com/cgi-bin/make_flame ] -------------------------------------------------------
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