- From: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:52:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, roconnor@uwaterloo.ca, www-html@w3.org
A fellow member exclaimed: >I don't know the reasoning either, but my impression was that B, I, and TT >survived due to their presence in HTML 2.0. (Note that S and STRIKE were >both deprecated.) Then again, BIG and SMALL were not deprecated... Well I reckon the *whole lot* should be deprecated, that is, the TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U elements, and that <I> should be brought back again as "instance of term use" (contrast with <DFN>) for times such as: <P>And this is why the <i>cocorbita nepula</i> has three seeds.</P> <!-- hmm. made that up on the spot :-) --> The advantage then is that temporally-challenged (old) browsers already render terms the usual way. There was general consensus on this a few weeks back when we last discussed these things... -- Ian Hickson -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/S d- s+: a--- C++(+++)>$ U P L+ !E W++ N++ o? K? w++>+++ O- !M V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t 5+++>++++ X- R+++ tv b++(+++) DI D++ G e-(*)>+++++ h!()(--) y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Received on Monday, 2 March 1998 03:17:15 UTC