Older recommendations to have links to newer versions, e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html from Ed Avis on 2017-03-03 (site-comments@w3.org from March 2017)

From: Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:07:40 +0000
To: "site-comments@w3.org" <site-comments@w3.org>
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When a W3C Recommendation has a newer version which (in some loose sense) supersedes it,
it would be useful for the documentation of the older version to have a link to the newer.

For example, https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html is a page from the older HTML 4.01 recommendation.
It still ranks highly in Google search results.
It could have a banner at the top

   This is an older version of the HTML Recommendation.  The latest is HTML 5.1.

with a link to the corresponding page in the newer recommendation - or at least a link to the table of contents.

Thanks,

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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
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Received on Friday, 3 March 2017 09:11:22 UTC