RE: General Comment re Guidelines/Discussion

This thread is moved to the guidelines list, where itis under discussion.

owever I don't think you have to give up those attributes, you just have to
use a style sheet as well.

Charles McCN

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Bruce Bailey wrote:

  I don't have a problem with avoiding wholly deprecated elements. 
   Unfortunately, by my reading, 3.3 is stricter than this.  To follow this 
  checkpoint I would also have to give up all occurrences of 
  ALIGN=CENTER/RIGHT attributes.  That is too much of a sacrifice for me!
  
  
  On Wednesday, July 21, 1999 10:39 PM, Charles F. Munat 
  [SMTP:charles@munat.com] wrote:
  > As for Priority 3.3, I read it to say that you should use a stylesheet 
  for
  > layout vs. elements such as B, I, FONT, etc. As far as I'm concerned, as
  > long as you avoid those elements, you've met this priority. If you want 
  to
  > make text red, use a stylesheet or the style attribute rather than the 
  font
  > tag. If you can live without the B, I, etc. tags, and you don't feel that
  > you need a stylesheet, I don't see that Priority 3.3 requires one. What, 
  a
  > blank one, just for looks?
  

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