- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:07:26 -0500
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
At 03:08 PM 1/14/00 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >Ann Navarro wrote: > >> Why would an entire language be deprecated? > >Typically, new versions of a spec implicitly >deprecate old ones: a new C compiler that >didn't do ANSI C would be thought rather odd. > >XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 don't seem to have that >relationship: one is "monolithic" and the other is >"modular". Doing so would be contrary to practice at least in regard to HTML. It's still perfectly valid to write documents to HTML 2.0, 3.2, and all other official versions. Using a newer one might be better, but there's no statement of deprecation on entire versions. Ann --- Just Released! - HTML BY Example Now shipping - Mastering XML Also in print: Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes
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