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    <bug>
          <bug_id>8493</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2009-12-15 03:44:36 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>I think &lt;hr&gt; element should represent NOT ONLY a paragraph-level thematic break BUT ALSO a separator between flow contents, for backword compatibility.</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:49:33 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>NEEDSINFO</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-hr-element</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
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    <commentid>30134</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
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    <bug_when>2009-12-15 03:44:36 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-hr-element

Comment:
I think &lt;hr&gt; element should represent NOT ONLY a paragraph-level thematic
break BUT ALSO a separator between flow contents, for backword compatibility.

Posted from: 114.166.9.45</thetext>
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    <commentid>30603</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-01-06 08:02:14 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>EDITOR&apos;S RESPONSE: This is an Editor&apos;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: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: How does what the spec say now break backwards compatibility?</thetext>
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