- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:41:16 +0000
- To: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Lee Kowalkowski wrote: > It looks like you have <strike> in both camps there... or I'm not following. Mea culpa. > I really don't think we have a reason to reinstate the strike element. > Hypothesising that there may be other valid reasons for striking out > text doesn't help, it creates uncertainty. The del element is an > adequate replacement for the most common reason for the use of strike. > For other reasons, use a more appropriate element, e.g. for Doomsday > Book-style highlighting, use styled ems. Fine, it seems we agree about what matters, and can agree to disagree about the rest. <Strike> has no place in HTML, since (a) it conveys a purely visual effect, and (b) that effect can be perfectly well achieved without requiring its use. Philip TAYLOR
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