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Re: About dropping the style attribute (offlist, www-archive)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:49:21 +0200
To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.tue9ojar64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:43:14 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
>> FWIW, it's not deprecated. It has been removed from the language. HTML5  
>> does not do deprecation. By your reasoning <plaintext>, <isindex> etc.  
>> should also be conforming which doesn't make much sense to me.
>
> So you don't see any difference between documents using style attributes  
> (allowed in HTML4), and documents using <isindex> (deprecated in HTML4)  
> or <plaintext> (not present in HTML4)?

They were allowed in previous "versions" of HTML. So not really. As I see  
it we just need to design a language independent from HTML4 with the  
constraints we have.


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Anne van Kesteren
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