Re: Cleaning House

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>> 1.  How long do we need to continue to support deprecated tags?
> 
> Probably forever. At least, I don't think the content using them will 
> disappear entirely from the web any time soon, if ever.

But the content using them is written in older (<5) versions of HTML, so 
why is that relevant (unless you want 100% backwards compatibility, in 
which case you should also reintroduce things that have already been 
dropped, like TT, BIG, STRIKE, S and U). Treat them as unrecognised 
elements, rather than ratifying their use for yet another standards round...

P
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Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:34:17 UTC