[Bug 10298] Update the definition of BR from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic break."

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10298


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-09-10 09:40:53 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's not a thematic break, it's a line break. Consider the two main
use cases, postal addresses and poems. In neither case is there a thematic
break. Heck in the poem case it happens half-way through a sentence!

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