- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:44:16 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
1. a To Do
> Clean up usage of capitalization and <strong> on HTML elements and
> attributes. Use as WCAG does: elements are capitalized, no emphasis (e.g.,
> IMG), attributes are lower-case and in quotes (e.g., "alt" or "longdesc").
That quoting of attribute names seems awkward, since in XML the attribute
and its value must be in quotes. So do we have to use in examples
<IMG ... "alt='shorttitle'">
Incidentally, XHTML has changed to make element names lower-case, as XML
is case-sensitive for element and attribute names.
But HTML 401 hasn't.
2. Mention Deprecated material, both elements and attributes?
Element types from HTML 3.2 deprecated in HTML 4.0:
APPLET, BASEFONT, CENTER, DIR, FONT, ISINDEX, MENU, S, STRIKE, U
Obsolete element types, for which substitute PRE are:
LISTING, PLAINTEXT, XMP.
Many attributes are also deprecated in HTML 4.01 (APPLET is particularly
targeted):
align on CAPTION, APPLET, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT, OBJECT, LEGEND, TABLE,
HR, DIV, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H5, P
alink on BODY
alt on APPLET
archive on APPLET
background on BODY
bgcolor on TABLE, TR, TD, TH, BODY
border on IMG, OBJECT
clear on BR
code on APPLET
codebase on APPLET
compact on DIR, DL, MENU, OL, UL
face on BASEFONT, FONT
height on TD, TH, APPLET
hspace on APPLET, IMG, OBJECT
language on SCRIPT
link on BODY
name on APPLET
noshade on HR
nowrap on TD, TH
object on APPLET
prompt on ISINDEX
size on HR, FONT, BASEFONT
start on OL
text on BODY
type on LI, OL, UL
value on LI
version on BODY
3. Some checkpoints have no [priority], others do. Be consistent.
Received on Thursday, 2 March 2000 15:56:35 UTC