Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/05/93 11:36

Davémon <"davémon"@nospam.com> wrote:

>>> Have attributes been depreciated or something?
>>
>> Yes. Didn't you know this? The align attribute in <td> does not belong
>> to the deprecated (sic) attributes at present,
>
> So "no they haven't been deprecated" is the answer to the question.

No, not to the question you asked. "Yes" is the correct answer to the
question you actually asked. You asked "Have attributes been depreciated or
something?", not "Have the attributes been deprecated?"

> unfortunately purely structural HTML limits what is achievable, therefore
> the need to /occasionally/ use presentational markup, /when required/.

In this case, the attribute has a CSS counterpart, so I have no idea of what
you are referring to here.

> Or if the table was hundreds of rows/columns long when you'd
> need to have a hugely bloated css file full of +td, which is only going
> to work in the most modern browsers anyway.

You seem to keep missing the point. The issue was how to do things on
standards-conforming browsers, given that IE can be handled with the
technique described originally.

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