Posted by Tony Cooper on 10/10/05 04:41

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:37:33 GMT, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

>Tony Cooper wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 23:26:00 -0700, Neredbojias
>> <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>With neither quill nor qualm, Tony Cooper quothed:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I probably won't hang around alt.html very long since the regulars
>>>>here sneer at 4.01 and seem to get off on pointing and shouting at
>>>>deprecated tags.
>>>
>>>Well, it's a lot of fun.
>>>
>>>
>>>>They don't seem to understand that some of us are
>>>>quite happy to use the simplest solution and don't see the need to
>>>>learn to operate a 20 ton crane to lift a matchbox.
>>>
>>>"If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right."
>>>
>>>- My mother, circa 1960
>>
>>
>> No argument from me on that score, but what is "right"? If the intent
>> is to put up a single page with a couple of images, is placing the
>> text and the images with CSS instead of 4.01 more "right"?
>
>I think you are mistaken here, 4.01 governs the structure and use CSS
>for the style, your precious attributes are deprecated. What you
>describe is pre-4.01, like 4.0 and 3.2.

You could very well be right. The one book that I have on html is
titled "HTML 4.01 Weekend Crash Course", and what I do is based on
that book. I assumed that the information in the book is all 4.01.
If it's not, I wouldn't know the difference.

I'm not sure what you mean by "your precious attributes are
deprecated".

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