(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!"

A google easter egg

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 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>

 

Obsolete Tag of the day

By Miguel Costa

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Obsolete Tag of the day

A collection of html tags that are either deprecated or whose use is not encouraged, for any particular reason.

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