- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 22:34:13 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> 1. How long do we need to continue to support deprecated tags? > > Probably forever. At least, I don't think the content using them will > disappear entirely from the web any time soon, if ever. But the content using them is written in older (<5) versions of HTML, so why is that relevant (unless you want 100% backwards compatibility, in which case you should also reintroduce things that have already been dropped, like TT, BIG, STRIKE, S and U). Treat them as unrecognised elements, rather than ratifying their use for yet another standards round... P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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