On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Bryce Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why not just list <br> along with the other obsolete elements instead of > > trying to rebrand it semantically? > > What markup do you propose for addresses and poems, and in what > practical sense would this markup be superior to using <br>?
The HTML5 spec says of <pre>: "The pre element represents a block of preformatted text, in which structure is represented by typographic conventions rather than by elements." <pre> sounds ideal for both examples to me (in conjunction w/ the <address> element in the second example. It preserves the line breaks w/o adding any overhead markup to the mix. -- ----- Bryce Fields www.royalrodent.com "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
