Deprecated Tags
A deprecated tag is a tag that has a more flexible alternative set by the W3C. Browsers are continuing to support these tags but future support of these tags are not guaranteed. What I want to know is why do we continue to see these tags on “new’ web sites?
I would say the most popular deprecated tags are <u> and <font>. This is the web not a word document and underlines can make people think that the word(s) are links. As far as font a basefont size and color should be set in a stylesheet.
Dreamweaver 8 allows a user to add those tags into a webpage. That’s no good, shame on you Dreamweaver. If people are allowed to add <u> or <font> tags in their documents, then what happens when browsers no longer support those tags?
People should use CSS to seperate content from presentation, but people are going to take short cuts. I place the bulk of the blame on the editors. The people are always going to try to take short cuts so eliminate the short cuts and guide users to do the right thing.
Tags: deprecated tags
April 6th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Well look who is finally starting to write some blog entries. I agree completely, HTML editors are definitely partly to blame for a lot of the crap code out there. By the way, I definitely tried to click on the underline text up there. Did you mean to have the actual tags output instead of underlining it? Like
<u>and<font>? Also, did you know you can scroll horizontally for like 10 miles in FF and Safari on the Mac? Not sure if it’s the same on windows.April 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I fixed the tags… guess my poor post was a sign of what UNC was about to do against Kansas, what a poor showing.
I see the scroll bar and I am going to have to figure out what the hell happend. Thanks for the catch.