- From: gonchuki <gonchuki@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:28:22 -0200
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
> The point with strikes on a paper is exactly that you cannot remove > them. Unlike the DEL element. The DEL element represent text that you > can set to display:none, unless you are the editor or another person > with particular interest in the document revision. Wheras the STRIKE > element represents text that it is required that readers know about. > Style and form has always been important in judging the authensity of a > document. Therefore STRIKE must be used for strikes, while DEL and INS > can be used if the author wants to document his or her own editing of a > document. Nothing ensures that striking text on paper will let it remain readable. This is more of a visual representation and perception issue than a semantic one. > Even if you know the date, the point is not to emphasize that this > represents a certain edition. For instance if you want, in your blog, to > humorously mark up- "he is stupid" as deleted, and "he is nice" as > inserted, then you should use <strike>stupid</strike> and not > <del>stupid</del> (and the underline element - not INS). this is actually a <del> tag, even if inserted on purpose the semantic meaning is that of a revision on the text to delete your supposed previous statement. To clarify, on this particular use case your intention is to represent deleted text, even if you are joking around. > For instance, to insert a striked out text - that you forgot to notice > the first time. Without the STRIKE element, we would have to use a > meaningless DEL inside INS. This perhaps gives the same visual effect. > But it doesn't have the same semantics. Thus it is, in fact, visual > non-semantic mark-up. It can be compared to using INS instead of the > UNDERLINE element. if your HTML is correctly marked up with the relevant datetime attribute on the <ins> tag, then inserting a <del> tag with its proper datetime will clarify the edition process you made. -- Gonzalo Rubio
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