[rfc-i] <tt> vs HTML5

[paul.hoffman at vpnc.org (Paul Hoffman)]

On 20 Feb 2016, at 2:48, Julian Reschke wrote:

> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-html-rfc-02#section-9.63>:
>
>> 9.63.  <tt>
>>
>> This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
>
> but 
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-features>:
>
> So that's a requirement to produce invalid HTML...

We could easily fix this by getting rid of <tt> in the XML and replace 
it with <kbd>. Given that <tt> isn't in the v2 grammar, this change 
seems easy.

For historical reference, the design team discussed this back in October 
2014 but didn't come to consensus and then kinda forgot about it. At the 
time, we were leaning against any presentational elements like <strong> 
and <em>, so we dropped the subject, but then later heard enough input 
to add <strong> and <em> but we forgot to revisit the fact that <tt> is 
deprecated in HTML 5.

--Paul Hoffman