- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:50:46 -0500
- To: Sue Jordan <sjacct@worldnet.att.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Sue Jordan felt an urge to reveal at 8:17 PM -0000 on 12/16/97: > Why not deprecate all of them? (read: relegate to CSS where they belong) > Seems to me that would further the laudable goal of separation of > presentation from structure. I suppose there's no real problem with deprecation, except that most widely used browsers *don't* support CSS (and none, to my understanding, does so absolutely correctly yet) and thus it's still very necessary to use them when formatting is important (as it, I must tragically admit, sometimes is). Sure, deprecation doesn't really *mean* anything, except of course that in an ideal world you wouldn't use these elements. The danger in using deprecated elements only really occurs if the person using them is the sort of person who wouldn't read the specs anyway. The most important thing the W3C can do is begin to pressure authors of web authoring books/manuals/lessons to start placing an emphasis on the logical rather than the visual and then teach the use of CSS. Otherwise, it matters little what we do. ------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] [ "It's well known that dead people are all sick ] [ because they're too depressing." ] [ -- from http://www.icemcfd.com/cgi-bin/make_flame ] -------------------------------------------------------
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