I do see an advantage to permitting the arbitrary styling of the BR element.
Often a series of links shown inline are separated by a pipe (|) character. In the past I've produced this effect using border-right and other such malarky on the anchors or inline LIs with the same, but I think semantically the symbol does indeed represent a break between the links and that having the ability to style the break accordingly would be terrific. —Kit On 05/08/2010, at 9:56 PM, Thomas Koetter wrote: > Andy wrote: >> Far greater semantic richness is obtained by using the ADR microformat > > Absolutely! Good point. > As I was talking about HTML5 elements, I didn't take that into consideration. > > But then I suggest a combination of the two is even better. > > <address class="vcard"> > <dl class="adr"> > <dd class="fn">P. Sherman</dd> > <dd class="street-address">42 Wallaby Way</dd> > <dd class="locality">Sydney</dd> > </dl> > </address> > > This way there are some semantics even if the user agent doesn't support > microformats. > > But this seems to be a separate discussion from the br element. >
