[thelist] Hiring Eye Opener - Web Skills Testing (long)

MRC webmaster at equilon-mrc.com
Tue Feb 26 17:32:01 CST 2002


Mark,

> Yes to align and bgcolor, but why <strong>? It's a recommended tag that is
> much more usable than <b>, as <b> is for visual layout and <strong> can be
> used for emphasis in non-visual browsers too -- not to mention the fact
that
> <b> was deprecated in HTML 4.

    Actually <b> was _not_ deprecated in HTML 4.x [1]. The elements <u> and
<s> were deprecated, and <b> is often assumed to be within that same
group -- but both <b> and <i> remain fully valid html (inexplicably, IMO).

James Aylard

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-B




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