On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Ben Curtis wrote: >>That's a very curious thing for the W3C to publish. I am not aware of any HTML standard in which b and i are deprecated. >>Can anyone cite such a declaration?
>>They are included in XHTML 1.1 (Presentation Module) >>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/ >>abstract_modules.html#s_presentationmodule >>They were not deprecated in XHTML 1.1: >>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes >>As I understand it, nothing was deprecated in XHTML 1.0; in fact, they don't define the term for possible use: >>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#defs >>HTML 4.01 didn't deprecate anything; it only clarified HTML 4.0. b and i are not deprecated in 4.0: >>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.1.2 >>If the W3C misspoke, or if they are indeed deprecated but not listed as such in the common specs... well, it's no wonder >>such rumors persist! Please look at the date of each document. The document listing the items as deprecated is the most recent. HTML 4.01 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/cover.html#minitoc W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999 XHTML(tm) 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#defs W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000, revised 1 August 2002 Modularization of XHTML(tm) W3C Recommendation 10 April 2001 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/ XHTML(tm) 1.1 - Module-based XHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/Overview.html#toc W3C Recommendation 31 May 2001 HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/ W3C Working Draft 30 June 2005 (includes the information regarding deprecated <b> and <i> tags) "If the W3C misspoke..." Do you really believe that the W3C "misspoke" because they have a working draft with change/updates to the current HTML/XHTML recommendations? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
