When certain tags become deprecated, they become so because they are replaced by more favorable ways of achieving their original purpose. (In the case of <blink>, being annoying helped it along the path of deprecation.) But there's one tag that may be coming back to life.
The value of <u>
The <u>, whose sole purpose was to underline inline text, was deprecated in HTML 4.01, and was destined to remain unsupported in future versions of HTML. However, arguments have recently been made to revive it in HTML 5, warning that <u> has a specific value that no other tag has, and that we never should've given <u> up. Watch Tim Berners-Lee defend this proposition to the World Wide Web Consortium in a heated March 2008 discussion.
Comments (9)
I didn't know Tim Berners-Lee could sing!
Posted April 1, 2008 9:34 AM | #
Hehe nice April Fools. I was actually on the edge of my sit for a minute there.
Posted April 1, 2008 9:41 AM | #
this pissed me off.
Posted April 1, 2008 9:54 AM | #
Da mn :))) april foollsss. you got me.
Posted April 1, 2008 10:31 AM | #
Now that was just plain mean!
Posted April 1, 2008 12:48 PM | #
Ignoring the fact that this is a prank post, I say why not? If the W3C is willing to give b and i a second chance by specifying real-life cases in which these tags may actually be needed, then why not the u tag? :D
Posted April 1, 2008 1:27 PM | #
i'm slightly confused - i didn't think there would be a html 5.0; i thought they had moved to xhtml 1.0 now, a convergence of html and xml?
Posted May 12, 2008 2:28 PM | #
about css parameters
http://css-lessons.ucoz.com/css-parameters.htm
Posted June 3, 2008 1:14 PM | #
Interesting site. Many of you will learn about this ccs. :)
Posted June 26, 2008 1:12 AM | #