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<s> and are not obsolete anymore (no-obsolete-elements)

See original GitHub issue

As far as I can tell from the WATWG HTML spec—first link in the referenced documentation—they explain that “Elements in [non-conforming features] list are entirely obsolete, and must not be used by authors” for which the only reference to <s> is the following:

strike Use del instead if the element is marking an edit, otherwise use s instead.

I have been unable to find any reference to the deprecation of the <s> element.

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sukimacommented, Aug 24, 2022

Like  and  are not obsolete but repurposed so was  and <s>. There are semantic reasons to use  and <s> according to the latest specs¹.

For styling purposes yet the developer would and should use CSS but from a pure semantic perspective the above elements provide a different meaning then what they used to have when they were just style presentation tags.

¹ u spec / s spec

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bmishcommented, Aug 24, 2022

Thanks for your investigation. It sounds like we can update the rule to match the current deprecated/obsolete elements as I’m assuming that’s what @MelSumner intended with the rule. Although most people would still want to use CSS instead of these particular elements right?