- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Chapman, Hass" <hass.chapman@sebank.se>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Chapman, Hass wrote:
> ----------
> >From: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" (reply to:
> >roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca)
> >This sounds like very good reasoning to me, but I get the impression that
> >some elements are not being deprecated because they are ``popular''.
> >(e.g. IMG, B, I, TT, <A NAME="foo">) This seems like a very silly reason
> >not to deprecate elements (or attributes). The specs wouldn't force
> >authors not to use theses elements. It is a suggestion. I think most
> >people here would agree that the above list of elements (and attributes)
> >shouldn't be used in pure HTML 4.0. (HTML 4.0 strict?)
>
> Why shouldn't IMG be used?
IMG shouldn't be used because, like APPLET, it has been replaced by the
OBJECT element.
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