On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Darren Luvaas wrote:
>
> The full name of this element suggests a visual presentation
> ("horizontal") and carries years of built-in presentational baggage from
> all existing browsers--some of which cannot be zeroed out or overridden.
> The HTML5 proposal for <hr> is no better.
>
> The <separator /> tag from XHTML2.0 would be a much needed improvement.
> This new element is purely semantic, implies no presentation and carries
> no rendering baggage from years of browser and user abuse.
>
> Please, please deprecate <hr>!
HTML5 actually uses <separator/> from XHTML2, it just spells it <hr> for
backwards-compatibility reasons.
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