Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/06/06 14:42

Steve Pugh wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Ben C wrote:
>>>> Put the whole lot inside an <a> element.
>>> A DIV element can't go inside an A element. Only inline elements
>>> (excluding another A) can go inside an A.
>> I didn't know that-- it works in Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
>
> Browsers have to be able to deal with a lot of very poor quality HTML.
> But don't expect them to treat invalid code consistently - what works
> in one may not work in another, and what works today may not work
> tomorrow.

Which may sound pessimistic to some, but there is at least one case of a
non-standard feature disappearing: the ALT text that was displayed in
a bubble in Netscape 4 (and still is in IE) was gone with version 6.

What other features once supported by a brand of browser has disappeared
in a subsequent version?

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