- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:39:34 -0800
- To: "Belov, Charles" <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Belov, Charles <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com> wrote:
> Aryeh Gregor wrote on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:54 PM
>> data:text/html,<!doctype html>
>> <button onclick="execCommand('underline', false,
>> null)"><u>U</u></button> <div contenteditable=true> <p
>> style="text-decoration: underline">Hello there!
>> </div>
>>
>> * IE 9 RC and Firefox 4b11 give up and do nothing
>> * Chrome dev converts to <p><u>Hello </u>there<u>!</p>
>> * Opera 11 converts to <p style="text-decoration:
>> underline">Hello <u>there</u>!</p>, which seems like a bug
>>
>
> and various other examples snipped.
>
> My concern here from an accessibility viewpoint is that semantic (u tag)
> and non-semantic (text-decoration: underline) uses of underline are
> being conflated.
That's irrelevant for the purposes discussed here. Treat the use of
<u> here as just a convenient shorthand to avoid writing out <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">, which would have complicated the
examples for little reason.
(I don't know if browsers actually use <u> when doing contentEditable
stuff, but it doesn't matter here.)
~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:40:26 UTC