- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:57:22 +0000
- To: Christopher Reynolds <christopher_reynolds@flightcentre.com>
- Cc: <public-html-comments@w3.org>
On 22 Jan 2008, at 23:55, Christopher Reynolds wrote: > I feel that this is not the case in many sites that display prices to > customers. Often, when a price is reduced, the old price is displayed > using the strike element. > In this instance, the strike element is used to denote a piece of data > that was once correct, but has since been altered. If the function of > the strike element were to be handled by CSS, then there's a risk that > the site visitor could be presented with information that is > intended to > be deprecated but is being presented as current. This is exactly what the del and ins elements are intended for: marking up edits; ins marking up an addition to the document (an "insertion") and del a removal (a deletion). In this use case, the old price has been deleted and a new price has been inserted. Due to more exact semantics than strike, a site visitor can be presented with the content in a more desirable way (and therefore not being reliant on CSS whatsoever). -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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