Torsten Neuer (tneuer@inwise.de)
Wed, 26 May 1999 08:40:35 +0200
According to Benjamin Smedberg:
>> a better display with Lynx (e.g. the footer would display correctly under
>> Lynx if <TD><CENTER> would be used instead of <TD ALIGN="center">).
>
><CENTER> is officially deprecated with HTML4. This goes back to the earlier
>discussion about how much we should stick to the HTML4 standard. I believe
>that Lynx will render properly if I put it in a <DIV ALIGN="center">
Yes, I know - tons of tags are marked as deprecated in the 4.0 standard.
However, there are also many issues leading towards the use of those
tags:
- A lot of people still use "deprecated" browsers (about 30% according to
our site stats).
- Even so-called HTML 4.0 browsers are not able to correctly render documents
formatted in the 4.0 standard (I believe Opera is currently closest to that
point)
- As far as I remember, <DIV> doesn't work correctly inside of a table
column in Lynx
Stuff that has been marked "deprecated" in 4.0 mainly for the reason that
it should be substituted with CSS formatting, which obviously is better.
But as long as there are browsers out there which do not honor CSS or in-
correctly display CSS formatted documents - and sometimes even crash - I
feel very uncomfortable with strictly sticking to 4.0. But this is, of
course, my personal opinion ;-)
regards,
Torsten
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