[thelist] Non-Deprecated HTML Presentational Elements (was, C SS Font Sizes)

Aylard JA (James) jaylard at equilon.com
Tue Feb 27 18:09:38 CST 2001


Joe,

> The idea is to meld theory and practice, considering practice and theory
> are *both* moving targets in actual use, what choice do they have?

	I think you're right -- it's the only thing that would explain the
inconsistency (in my mind, anyway) of deprecating <u>, but not <i> and <b>.
But I still think it is, well, dumb. The Transitional DTD was set up to
include deprecated presentational markup. I don't see any logic in
maintaining this stuff in the Strict DTD. It makes no sense to me (nor to my
2¢, which I just spent with abandon :).

James Aylard




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