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- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:37:28 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10862 Summary: Remove the newly added "s" element Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Macintosh OS/Version: Mac System 9.x Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: shelleyp@burningbird.net QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org A new element was recently added to the HTML5 specification. Adding new attributes and elements, or removing existing attributes and elements, is a major change. Such changes should be discussed in the group email list before being dumped into the specification. Using a single letter to address an element has been discouraged in the past, and rightfully so. The letter "s" might be meaningful for a snake, but not for people. The fact that it is supposedly to mark text that is no longer relevant or correct can't be determined just by looking at the element. In addition, the web is mutable, not static. If text is incorrect or no longer relevant, most web sites either adjust the text or remove the text. The example shows a price change in a web site -- can you imagine Amazon doing something like this? Amazon just changes the price. End of story, and no confusion. If people want to use this as a marketing technique, as the example demonstrates, then they can use strike-through text to mark out the old value, because the use of an element makes no sense -- the fact that the text has changed isn't meaningful, the use in this case is a marketing ploy. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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