- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:08:12 -0700
- To: mbtawes@comcast.net
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
> I have been using HTML for almost 6 years now, and I always have > used the <b>, <u>, <i>, <font>, <s> or <strike>, and <center> > elements because they allow for easy-to-read code and simpler > editing. > > I also think that the align, alink, vlink, link, text, background, > bgcolor,hspace, border, vspace, type, valign, width, height, > cellpadding and cellspacing attributes for their respective elements > are very useful and should not be eliminated. Not sure this point got much attention: the reason why it’s not advisable to use any presentational markup is that it’s harder to maintain (shameless: [1]). How presentational markup is easier to read is not clear to me: using more code typically does but one thing, making it harder to understand the code, and if you want to understand how a document will look like, the answer should be made by the style sheet. [1] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090617/maintainability-guide/#toc-markup -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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