Re: Psychology and usefulness

On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Mike Batchelor wrote:

> > Now this is interesting... deprecate a tag that doesn't exit. Correct me 
> > if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the only place that BIG and SMALL 
> > exist is in the HTML 3.0 draft, and I don't believe any browsers 
> > implement it, either. So why not just forget they ever existed, and not 
> > bother with the deprecation?
> 
> Mosaic 2.6beta implements <small>, but not <big>.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that HTML 3.0 is still just a draft (a 
moving target by definition), and since that version of Mosaic is itself 
just a beta (software's equivalent of a draft), surely it could be 
quietly forgotten.. .  .   .    .


dave

Received on Tuesday, 18 July 1995 02:52:48 UTC