- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:49:20 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli writes: > Smylers 08-02-07 17.38: > > > Leif Halvard Silli writes: > > > > > I think you have brought up a very good usecase for STRIKE here. > > > Here the stricken text represent the very reference to the bug. > > > > However there are a number of other presentations that bug tracking > > systems could use to denote closed bugs -- for example they could be > > in red rather than black. But that wouldn't be a reason for adding > > a <red> element. > > HTML 5 says that B and I are not necessarily rendered in bold or in > italics. The same goes without saying about STRIKE. It does not need > to have that line-through style. So why does this usecase suggest we need a <strike> element? If the actual formatting is something that we're doing in CSS then an element specifically for striking-out doesn't seem to be needed in this situation. Smylers
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