Re: Depreciated Presentation Attributes.

On 8 August 2014 22:55, Rob^_^ <iecustomizer@hotmail.com> wrote:

>   eg> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/attributes/align
>
> ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
>
> and http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/conform.html
>
> “This specification includes examples that illustrate how to avoid using
> deprecated elements. In most cases these depend on user agent support for
> style sheets. In general, authors should use style sheets to achieve
> stylistic and formatting effects rather than HTML presentational
> attributes. HTML presentational attributes have been deprecated when style
> sheet alternatives exist “
>
> In the wild, novice developers will get bamboozled by
> <table align=”left” style=”margin:0 auto”> (which will render differently
> in different userAgent versions, and DTD headers)
>
> for depreciated presentational attributes (align, cellspacing,
> cellpadding, valign, halign, bkcolor, etc), should there be a big.
>
> “*Depreciated: Use CSS instead* “
>
> warning?
>
> A Note: validator.w3.org will flag align=”left” as a warning if the dtd
> is HTML 5, but flag it as an error if served with HTML4 strict.
>
>
> Regards.
>