- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 05:33:05 -0500
- To: Dataweaver <traveler@io.com>, sp249@cam.ac.uk, lehors@w3.org, wlkngowl@unix.asb.com, www-html@w3.org
Somebody wrote to the list: > The general trend on the W3C's mailing lists is that HTML is now frozen, > [..] And someone else replied: > > I don't think that HTML is truly final. Some tags are deprecated in > > 4.0, which only has meaning if there will be future versions in which > > these tags may or may not be removed. Then on 4 May 98, Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang wrote: > Well, you have HTML 4.0 Transitional, which makes use of the depreciated > tags, and HTML 4.0 Strict, which doesn't. So in a sense, the version > where they are to be removed has already been released. Yes and no. There are still disagreements about what should be deprecated (some feel that B and I elements should be left as for legacy purposes, for instance). And there are a few "minor" attributes to be tweaked along with some of the finer points in the DTD (like why do SCRIPT and NOSCRIPT have difference contexts?).. Rob
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