Re: <strong>/<em> instead of <b>/<i>

> 
> > <i> is deprecated and meaningless.
> 
> Sorry to bother with an HTML question, but where is <i> indicated as
> deprecated?

It's indicated as discouraged, rather than deprecated, in section 15.2
of the 4.01 spec <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2>.
This is also in the 4.0 drafts, so it has been in there since at least
December 1997.  The exact text is:

   The following HTML elements specify font information. Although they
   are not all [54]deprecated, their use is discouraged in favor of style
   sheets.

FONT and BASEFONT, later in the same section, are deprecated.

Received on Friday, 25 January 2002 17:27:11 UTC