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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/10/05 06:39
Tony Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:37:33 GMT, "Jonathan N. Little"
> <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
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>>Tony Cooper wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 23:26:00 -0700, Neredbojias
>>><neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
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>>>>With neither quill nor qualm, Tony Cooper quothed:
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>>>>>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".
It sounds like 'HTML 4.01 Weekend Crash Course' wasn't worth whatever
you paid for it. Deprecated are legacy or proprietary elements or
attributes ear-marked for phasing out and their uses is discouraged. If
you use 4.01 strict doctype your code will not validate. A good place to
start:
Index of the HTML 4 Elements
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html
This list may also help:
Deprecated HTML tags and alternatives
http://www.codehelp.co.uk/html/deprecated.html
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Take care,
Jonathan
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