- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:11:47 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Lisa Pease wrote:
> If HTML 4.0 is preserving B and I elements, why not U for simple uses? I
> hate underline in general, and deplore its widespread usage. But for an
> access key indicator, I would surely miss it.
I agree that deprecating U without deprecating B and I is uncalled for.
I've seen U legitamately used for underlining book titles in a Works
Cited section. I can only assume the reasoning was because *some*
UA's underline their hyperlinks. I don't believe how present UA's render
some element should affect which elements are deprecated and which are
not.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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