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4.5.2 The hr element Append something like the following to opening sentence: The term hr refers to a horizontal rule, i.e. a line which runs across the page.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: <hr> doesn't refer to horizontal rules in HTML5 any more. I intentionally didn't mention the source of the element name to avoid leading readers into thinking it was intended for visual media only it applies equally well to other media, and doesn't have to be rendered as a horizontal rule at all. Indeed in the HTML5 spec itself it's merely rendered as a gap.
i guess the basic issue with <header> and <footer> being identified by this entry (and also bug 8601) is whether they are strictly sections for content, with no other functionality implied, or whether they also indicate that header and footer information is presented on a page-by-page basis when the html is rendered and presented. presenting header and footer information is quite common when paginating published papers or books.
please ignore comment 2, it was misapplied and belongs to a different bug.