Change Proposal for ISSUE-144 - Revision history

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	* All the reasons a human author might have to use <code><nowiki><u></nowiki></code> already have more appropriate elements, except the two cases given in the CP. They are both too rare on the Web to be considered valid use cases.		* All the reasons a human author might have to use <code><nowiki><u></nowiki></code> already have more appropriate elements, except the two cases given in the CP. They are both too rare on the Web to be considered valid use cases.

	* If we were to address the use case of content generated by an authoring agent, the same argument should be applied to <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><big></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><layer></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><blink></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><tt></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><center></nowiki></code>, align="", etc.		* If we were to address the use case of content generated by an authoring agent, the same argument should be applied to <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><big></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><layer></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><blink></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><tt></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><center></nowiki></code>, align="", etc, yet nobody is making such a case, suggesting that this rationale is not being consistently applied. Inconsistent application of rationales leads to very poor language design, confusing authors ("why is X possible but not the almost identical Y?" is a common question in such cases).

	* An underlined text which is not a hyperlink confuses the user in his/her browsing experience.		* An underlined text which is not a hyperlink confuses the user in his/her browsing experience.

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This is the CCP against [http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/UShouldBeConforming ChangeProposals - U Should Be Conforming].

== Summary ==

There is no new use cases addressed by the <code><nowiki><u></nowiki></code> element.

== Rationale ==

* All the reasons a human author might have to use <code><nowiki><u></nowiki></code> already have more appropriate elements, except the two cases given in the CP. They are both too rare on the Web to be considered valid use cases.

* If we were to address the use case of content generated by an authoring agent, the same argument should be applied to <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><big></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><layer></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><blink></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><tt></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><center></nowiki></code>, align="", etc.

* An underlined text which is not a hyperlink confuses the user in his/her browsing experience.

== Details ==

No change.

== Impact ==

=== Positive Impact ===

Authors will have to use appropriate semantic markup for applying underlines. (e.g. <code><nowiki><ins></nowiki></code> for insertion, <code><nowiki><em></nowiki></code> for emphasis, etc.)

=== Negative Impact ===

None.