Miguel Costa
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
(obsolete) <tag> of the day
Why are some <tags> discouraged?
- Proprietary, non-standard
- defined for specific browser
- Support may eventually stop...
- Accessibility issues
- Styling over substance?
- Styling is a job for CSS
<marquee>
An element whose text automatically scrolls
w3c's examples section only includes:
"No really,don't use it!"
Alternative: CSS animations
Made for Internet Explorer, supported due to legacy
image via seroundtable
<blink>
Text that flashes in and out
Another google easter egg
image via searchengineland
Alternative: CSS animations
w3c's examples section only includes:
"No, really,don't use it. It's simply evil."
Made for Netscape.
Never supported in IE!
Proposed by Montulli considering limitations of the Lynx browser, who now considers it a terrible idea
<blink> VS <marquee>
- tags proprietárias
- blink para netscape, marquee para IE
- blink para netscape, marquee para IE
- blink foi pensado numa "discussão" sobre possibilidade de destacar texto em Lynx
Lynx é um browser para linha de comandos. Era, naturalmente, limitado!
<center>
... 'centered' text
Alternative: CSS properties (margin, text-align)
w3c's examples section only includes:
"No, really,don't use it!"
Tags to style text
<tags> = structure/semantics
CSS = style
Alternatives: CSS properties (font-family), <del>
<font> - tag with a specific font set
<strike>, <strikethrough> - text crossed by an horizontal line
<referencias>
- Tutorialspoint
- https://html.com/deprecated/
- Bullet Three
Obsolete Tag of the day
By Miguel Costa
Obsolete Tag of the day
A collection of html tags that are either deprecated or whose use is not encouraged, for any particular reason.
