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Change Proposal for ISSUE-144
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This is the CCP against ChangeProposals - U Should Be Conforming.
Summary
There is no new use cases addressed by the <u> element.
Rationale
- All the reasons a human author might have to use
<u>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
<font>,<big>,<layer>,<blink>,<tt>,<center>, 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. <ins> for insertion, <em> for emphasis, etc.)
Negative Impact
None.