Attribute references

[David Dorward]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:38:03PM +0000, european bob wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:21 +0000, David Dorward wrote:
> > > Actually, it's not. HTML 4.01, #13.7.1 - deprecated in favour of
> > > stylesheets.

> > The spec does not mark those attributes as deprecated. (Then again,
> > <b> and <i> aren't deprecated either).
 
>         13.7 Visual presentation of images, objects, and applets
         
>         All IMG and OBJECT attributes that concern visual alignment and
>         presentation have been deprecated in favor of style sheets.

Maybe in theory, but the attributes themselves are not marked as
deprecated either at the precise point where they are described...

     attribute name = accepted valies
  Deprecated. Description of attribute.

... nor in the attribute listing (deprecated attributes are marked
with a D) <http://w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html>.

Looks like the spec is contridicting itself again.

> That applies to the entirety of 13.7, including 13.7.1 - width and
> height. I would guess that means that width and height are also missing
> from XHTML1.1, but the w3 site is a load of rubbish and I can't tell :o)

Since XHTML 1.1 is XHTML 1.0 with only minor modifications, I would
assume they still exist... and http://dorward.me.uk/tmp/valid11.xhtml
validates.

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