Posted by Mark Parnell on 06/17/05 05:17

Previously in alt.html, JohnWMpls <johnwfa@mn.rr.com> said:

> In O'Reilly - "HTML & XHTML The Definitive Guide", 5th edition.

Hmmm. They're generally pretty reliable (note: hearsay, never looked
myself).

> It is
> mentioned as deprecated in the descripiton for the span tag

*element*

> but not in the
> usual spot - the title for that tag's

*element's*

> section. I suspect an editing
> error.

You're sure it's not talking about a particular attribute or something?
It *is* definitely talking about the span element? Not trying to insult
your intelligence, but I don't understand how something like that could
have slipped past both the authors and editors.

> I also like <u>, the underline tag,

Hopefully you also like the </u> tag just as much. Or are you talking
about the u *element*? ;-)

> which is deprecated. The <u> is so
> much simpler than the css text-decoration for random uses on a page.

It doesn't carry any semantic meaning though (at least, not in any
context I'm aware of), unlike <b> and <i>, which can.

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