Posted by kdarling on 10/05/06 19:38

Harlan Messinger wrote:
> kdarling@basit.com wrote:
> > 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.

Yep, I think everyone got that. And you're right, it's weird to mark
something as obsolete in the first standard, and then deprecated later
on, and now just missing.

I think "xmp" is like "go to". No one wants to admit that it's useful.

All slightly tongue-in-cheek,
Kev

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