Re: [VE][html5] <strike> warning should recommend using <s> instead

Filed J.J.’s report as a bug:

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25205


Leif H Silli

Leif Halvard Silli, Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:33:47 +0100:
> Jukka K. Korpela, Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:10:42 +0200:
>> 2014-03-28 21:44, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> 
>>> Indeed. After all, <strike> and <s> are synonyms.
>>> 
>>> Leif H
>>> 
>>> j.j., Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:03:42 +0100:
>>>> The validator warns about <strike>:
>>>> 
>>>>   "The strike element is obsolete. Use CSS instead."
>>>> 
>>>> It should recommend to use <s> instead.
>> 
>> In browser reality, and by HTML 4.01, <strike> and <s> are 
>> synonymous, but by HTML5 CR, which is what matters here, they are 
>> not. The <s> element is conforming, whereas <strike> is not, and 
>> <strike> has no definition.
> 
> Well, I don't see that that make them not synonyms. HTML5 in fact says:
> 
> ”strike
> Use del instead if the element is marking an edit, otherwise use s 
> instead.
> ”
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/obsolete.html#strike

> 
>> In the HTML5 logic, which is not very logical, but by which 
>> validators should work, <strike> is an obsolete, nonconforming, ugly, 
>> naughty, impure, cursed presentational tag, whereas <s> is a proud 
>> Semantic tag. By that logic, <s> should be used instead of <strike> 
>> only in the very special case where the some semantics was meant to 
>> be implied by <strike> and this accidentally happens to coincide with 
>> the semantics of <s>.
> 
> Yes, it is true that del should be used if strike was used to signify 
> del semantics, while s should be used if strike was used to signify s 
> semantics.
> 
> I suppose that HTM5 expresses itself the way it does because it does 
> not make any assumptions about whether those who use <strike> has used 
> its correctly (that is: as a <s>)  or not. This makes some sense since 
> the semantics of <s> perhaps can be said to have been altered.
> 
> Leif