Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/05/06 18:51

kdarling@basit.com wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>> Scripsit Andy Dingley:
>>>
>>>> Please, don't use <xmp> That one was obsolete and deprecated even
>>>> before <XML>.
>>> And even before HTML. The _first_ HTML specification ever mentions <xmp>
>>> only as obsolete and deprecated.
>> Did they include it as a joke?
>
> It's the only tag that does what's often needed. Yes, it's
> obsolete/deprecated (depending on which standard you use), but so are
> CENTER, FONT and U, all of which will be around a long long time.

What I meant was, was it a joke to label something, in a specification,
as obsolete or deprecated when there had never been a previous version
of the specification in which it could have been included as a living,
breathing component.

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