At 05:15 PM 11/6/2002 -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
Is this really the case? I spent a bit of time looking, perhaps not in the right places, and haven't found "<i>" deprecated in HTML. (15.2.1 of the 4.0 Specification explicitly does not deprecates them but encourages style sheet use.)> That is one thing that has bugged me quite a bit. Bold fonts should be a > tag like italics. But that's for another thread :)<b>, <i>, <u>, and other similar tags have already been deprecated in HTML, in favor of their respective font-style/etc. CSS equivalents. Should we begin supporting that notion (not CSS itself, but the notion of it) in the viewer and parser?
XHTML is, of course, a different beast. Especially considering so much of the web never even graduated to 4.0!
With the featuritis that HTML is beginning to suffer, you'd think it was a Microsoft product. What ever happened to a lightweight markup language? I find it ironic that initially HTML was supposed to result in consistency of presentation across documents on a device with the presentation appropriate for the device, and now it's more aimed at the ability to override the device and user preferences and forgo any such cross-document consistency in leau of empowering the author to fully control the presentation. It flipped completely.
Buggerthat. <i> will be around for a <b>long</b> time! <grin>
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