ISSUE-144 (conforming-u): Call for revisions

To be more clear on this, the chairs consider the proposal at <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/BIUArePresentational> to be out of scope for the issue. ISSUE-144 was solely about the <u> element, but this proposal includes changes to <b> and <i> as well.

We'll allow one week (until February, 24) for revisions or submission of a suitable change proposal. If there are still no suitable proposals at that point, we will move to close the issue without prejudice.

Regards,
Maciej

On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:

> On 01/26/2011 02:45 PM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote:
>> Hi HTML WG,
>> 
>> Sorry for bring up this old and non-technical issue.
>> 
>>> This should be separated out into two separate proposals.
>> I decided on one of the two suggestions I proposed, that is, make all
>> <b>, <i> and <u> non-semantic.[1] That is, <b> = <i> = <u> = <span>
>> semantically. I hope this won't be considered non-orthogonal to the
>> raised issue as this affects <b> and <i> as well.
> 
> Filing bug reports on <b> and <i> at this time would be helpful.  This could result in a range of things happening from amicable consensus to this issue being considered as something that is to be resolved during last call instead of before last call.
> 
> Meanwhile, I encourage you to update the proposal to match what you intend to pursue.
> 
> Anybody who wishes to advocate the proposal that <u> is redefined as a semantic element is welcome to do so -- as a separate proposal.  Feel free to reuse portions of the original proposal to the extent it makes sense to do so.
> 
> - Sam Ruby
>

Received on Thursday, 17 February 2011 11:15:08 UTC