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Bug 7368 - The suggested UI for the mark element does not match the description and the examples. E.g. code highlighting is not something you want to see marked in the scrollbar. Personally I think code highlighting should just be done with strong.
Summary: The suggested UI for the mark element does not match the description and the ...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NoReply
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Reported: 2009-08-19 08:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:49 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-08-19 08:23:45 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-strong-element

Comment:
The suggested UI for the mark element does not match the description and the examples. E.g. code highlighting is not something you want to see marked in the scrollbar. Personally I think code highlighting should just be done with strong.

Posted from: 83.85.115.44
Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2009-08-19 08:39:19 UTC 
Seen in the wild:
http://oreilly.com/css-html/dive-into-html5/call-it-a-drawing-surface.html
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-19 22:02:55 UTC 
looks like i fixed this already.
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:49:44 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, 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

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.