Outside of client-side web tech, technologies will often remove support for old features that are deemed redundant because keeping them in just means a legacy of technical debt, more to learn and room for confusion and error.
XHTML was an attempt to apply this philosophy to the web. According to the XHTML specification, browsers that wanted to use XHTML 1.1 functionality needed an XHTML doctype, and features outside the XHTML specification should cause fatal errors. Of course, no-one implemented this because it would penalise users for authors' mistakes. This is known as 'breaking the web'. Much better for the browser's uptake if they try their best to render the content as it was likely intended. It's from this perspective that keeping support for these old features must be seen: ultimately implementation is down to the browser, and if another browser is going to keep these features but you aren't, that browser will have better compatibility than yours. On Sunday, 16 February 2014, <bruce.som...@web.de> wrote: > > > This talk of deprecation is ludicrous! It's one thing to urge use of CSS > for new web pages, but quite another to want to forbid the use of older, > so-called 'deprecated' facilities. > > It's also silly to expect authors to comb through all of their older pages > to eliminate everything that is not currently advocated by the numerous > gurus. > > Is this deprecation nonsense known outside of the PC-world? > > Bruce > > [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org <javascript:;>] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
