[thelist] "Strikeout" text in HTML?

[Joe Crawford]

Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
> >Erwan Deverre wrote:
> > > <s> and <strike> are deprecated, m'afraid.
> > > <del>'s the way to go.
> > >
> > > http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp
> >
> >I'm using <strike> on http://artlung.com/ right now and it validates to
> >4.01 transitional.
> >
> >How backwards-compatible are those others? I've been using <strike>
> >since Netscape 2 -- out of habit -- but I'm open to these others if the
> >support is good.
> 
> Just tested it (NN2-6, IE5.5, Op 3 and 5)
> 
> DEL is not supported by NN4 (and Opera 3', so no go.
> NN4 does support the CSS (to my surprise).
> S is not supported by Opera. Too bad.
> STRIKE is the only tag that NN2 supports, so it is the most backward
> compatible one available.
> 
> I recommend to continue using STRIKE or to go directly to the CSS
> declaration.

Thanks Peter -- using <strike> is a habit I have no experience grounding
or memory of - it's just a "I've always done it that way" type tag. Nice
to know I'm using it for a reason!

Much much obliged.

	- Joe <http://artlung.com/>
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