- From: Andrés Sanhueza <peroyomaslists@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:46:31 -0400
The <u> element was made conforming due to widespread usage and for some cases were other elements weren't suitable. However, I feel that the current definition is not very clear, as it gives two somewhat unrelated used for it: misspelled text and proper names on Chinese. I believe that is fine if is one or the other, but by the current definition seems that the purpose of retaining the element is merely were to underline needs to be used to represent something regardless what it is, which seems inconsistent with other similar tags that are better defined to have more finite purposes that aren't based on the fallback presentational look, even if relevant at the time of defining those. By the definitions seems that proper names and book names are suitable to be indicated by <b> and <cite> respectively; or some new element altogether. I'm aware that the fallback look is an issue, yet I believe it should be resolved in a more consistent way.
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