- From: gonchuki <gonchuki@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:15:22 -0200
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Feb 7, 2008 6:20 PM, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: > Text inside DEL is still usefull. Otherwise you would just zip it. that's the point, you remove the text as you please. Text staying inside the <del> element is to stay there until you decide. I guess you got confused with the literal and figurative meaning of "deleted" between my words. > In a blog, if you have a policy to not edit the text after you published > it, you can add STRIKE around things that you don't stand by anymore. If > you use DEL instead, then you hint that this document is temporarily - > you will soon publish a new version. adding <strike> is actually editing the document, it doesn't make it more valid to use one tag or another to work-around your own policy. > STRIKE marks up invalid content in a given _document_. question is, why does it stay if it's invalid. > > > don't know about the exact Bugzilla implementation, but wording tells > > you that a bug is solved when one writes "bug #799 resolved on > > changeset [1350]", you don't need any extra visual clue to know what > > it means, it's self-explanatory text and an unsighted user also gets > > > > The best is to see for yourselves, in context, how this is used and useful: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2875 the <strike> element won't give more information than the title of the <a> element that for example is "VERIFIED DUPLICATE". <strike> doesn't imply it's a duplicate, or invalid, or solved, the title attribute does. I insist that the use case is flawed. -- Gonzalo Rubio
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