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Bug 14524 - Why is <big> element removed, but not the <small> element? I think big and small are companions, they are a couple, they're married. Either they should both stay, or they should both go! It is unfair that one has to stay, but the other has to go. I think
Summary: Why is <big> element removed, but not the <small> element? I think big and sm...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-20 13:49 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-20 20:13 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-10-20 13:49:25 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Why is <big> element removed, but not the <small> element?

I think big and small are companions, they are a couple, they're married.
Either they should both stay, or they should both go!
It is unfair that one has to stay, but the other has to go.

I think they are for styling not for semantics, so I think both of them should
get deleted, then people should use CSS instead.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-20 20:13:40 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: <small> is defined as meaning "small print". There is no equivalent "big print".