<mark> element proposal of removal

[Pacoup]

HTML 5 <mark> element spec

Reffering to the aforementionned link, I propose we eliminate the <mark> element from the spec. As other presentational tags have been eliminated to be replaced by CSS, I propose <mark>'s function to be handled by CSS 3 instead.

However, the other side of the medal is that <mark> could largely be considered of the same value as <b> or <i>, which are retained. Considering content seperation, <em> and <strong> tag, as they define semantics, should be retained, <b> and <i> should be deprecated as in XHTML 2 (while still being required to be interpreted by UAs as HTML 5 states it does).

Another thing, anyone knows why this element has been renamed to <mark> instead of <m>? I thought <m> was better and more in line with <b> and <i>.

So, besides making them work for backwards compatibility, why are we keeping presentational tags (as compliant) that don't have to do with semantics?

[zcorpan]

<mark> is not presentational. It has the semantic that it marks or highlights a piece of text, for instance in search results or in a quote.