Dears nowadays still people are using old tags that are deprecated by W3. are they right or not?
Thanks.
birdbrain
3:16 pm on Mar 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
Hi there kevinpieterson,
and a warm welcome to these forums. ;)
...people are using old tags that are deprecated by W3. are they right or not?
I would imagine that they are just blissfully unaware. :)
birdbrain
rocknbil
7:05 pm on Mar 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
I say "not" . . . many of these same designs are rendering in Quirks Mode. So when their client informs then it is broken in IE, they scramble the Internet searching for a "quick fix" that usually winds up being a hack [webmasterworld.com] (a quick fix, a patch, a conditional comment) to get them through the project. These types of projects are likely one fix piled on top of another, as you look through them, you can almost see the breadcrumbs of frustration.
I have one client who prides himself on "understanding how all this works" and edits his own pages. He will often muck up a clean validated page by "playing around with it to get what he wants." His directives are presentational. "I don't get it about all this validation stuff. If I want something to center, I know to go in and put <center> over the whole thing, done deal. You're being a pain in the a**."
Which pretty much sums up may of these you'll find in the wild, too often clients are "all about presentation" so they don't understand why this is important.
tedster
10:17 pm on Mar 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
There is one deprecated tag that I intentionally use in a standards mode website - and that's <u>. In the case of that site, the materials were written by an important but deceased author and they are reprinted as written.
This author used underlined words a LOT - with very specific meanings that are important to a deeper understanding of the text. For example, some of these materials are designed to be read aloud, and the kind of inflection to give an underlined noun is very detailed - as it is for other parts of speech.
Until the browser technology forces me to change, I'm not about to switch all those nice simple <u> tags over to <span class="u"> or something like that - there can be 30 or 40 on a page! BTW, the rest of that website is very carefully styled to make it clear that these black underlines are not links, and there have been no complaints from the user base.
