- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:48:54 -0500
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>,public-html <public-html@w3.org>
> >We already have the HTML 5 Differences from HTML 4 document which already >points out the obsolete features. If such information really is valuable >to authors, then a better alternative would be to elaborate on the >alternatives available for authors to use in place of obsolete markup, >within that document, rather than including such information within the >Markup Language draft. > >http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/ I guess that I was thinking that it should be possible to review HTML5 as a catalog of elements and attributes, with deprecated and obsolete elements listed with links to suggested alternatives (where they exist) or alternative tactics toward achieving a compatible result as the deprecated or obsolete element. I would expect a validator to advise the user about deprecated elements, a browser to do whatever it chose to do, an editing tool to advise and try to offer helpful alternatives, and so on for other processors.
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