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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10838 KangHao Lu <kennyluck@w3.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | --- Comment #2 from KangHao Lu <kennyluck@w3.org> 2010-09-30 06:52:31 UTC --- The following is two other use cases of <u> from the wiki entry "Underline"[1]. I am not familiar with these use cases, but I think <em>, <mark> and <b> are not suitable here. - Underlines are sometimes used as a diacritic, to indicate that a letter has a different pronunciation to its non-underlined form. - single underline used on manuscripts to indicate the italic typeface to be used The use of <i> for the second use case is arguably incorrect because the typical typographic presentation in that context is not italicized. While these are probably corner cases, it might be worth giving just a tag to these cases where underline is the typical typographic presentation. For the record, I do agree that we shouldn't add extra semantics to <u>, but based on the current spec I don't agree that <u> is more presentational than <b> and <i>. They are all "a span of text offset from the normal prose/presentational mode, whose typical typographic presentation is xxx" to me, and explanation based on examples is confusing and somehow inconsistent. <i> for ship names won't be pronounced in an alternative voice (and ship names won't be italicized in Chinese, just as proper nouns won't be underlined in English), and I personally think these should all be made obsolete but conforming for consistency. They are all last resorts anyway. Any pointer to your long thought about underline will be appreciated. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underline -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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