- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:06:16 +0100
- To: "Frank Ellermann" <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, public-html-comments@w3.org
NB: Personal view and all... On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:14:08 +0100, Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com> wrote: > With a rather old text mode browser (Lynx) nesting <big> > and <small> worked like a charme, and the same browser > ignored <font> and similar markup for obvious reasons. It's not obvious to me why it did not ignore <big> and <small>. > Now it might make sense to deprecate <small> *and* <big>, > but then I don't get the point of tackling *only* <big>. There was a use case for <small> but not for <big>. > Similarly all old (pre HTML 4) browsers I've ever used > supported <s>, but not <del>. IIRC at least one XHTML- > based specification doesn't include the "edit-module". > (Admittedly it also doesn't include the legacy-module) Well, we're fixing that now, not? :-) > Authors interested to create pages "visible with any > browser" need the <s>. I recall my failing attempt to > find "diff marks" (with Netscape 3) in a W3C document > using <del> for this job. Are such browsers still used? I believe all browsers support <del> and <ins> now. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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