[thelist] semantic markup

Paul Cowan evolt at funkwit.com
Wed Jun 2 19:34:42 CDT 2004


On 2/06/2004 11:22 AM -0400 RUST Randal wrote:
> part of the reason why <b> and <i> are
> deprecated tags in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0.

No they're not.

I'm as much a one for semantic markup as anyone, but it's worth getting the 
facts straight -- <b> and <i> are not deprecated in any HTML/XHTML version, 
include 4.01 and 1.0 Strict respectively. In XHTML 1.1 they've been moved 
into the Presentation Module, but that's still not deprecated or even 
discouraged.

Paul.



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