On 4/11/24 18:56, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 4 Nov 2024 06:00 +0000, from a...@strugglers.net (Andy Smith):
Installing 20+ year old software just to make sure it can never parse
HTML5 is total lunacy. There will be no support community for such a
thing for a start, so any problem you have is going to be a showstopper.
Also, it shouldn't be particularly difficult, if one is so inclined,
to create a file which (short of the doctype declaration) is
_simultaneously_ valid HTML 2.0 (to say nothing of HTML 4) and HTML 5.
Kind of like how _by design_ anything that is valid 7-bit US-ASCII is
also simultaneously valid as UTF-8 representing the same Unicode code
points.
Yes, later versions of HTML have _added_ quite a lot of stuff, and
perhaps slightly changed the default _semantics_ of some; but very
little has been _removed_. (One biggie might be <FONT>, which was
deprecated as of HTML 4.01[1] and appears to be nonexistent in HTML
5[2].)
[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.2
[2]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/indices.html#elements-3
As a person who writes web sites in HTML 3, I believe that frames have
been deprecated, and, I believe that the bolding ( <B>Bold</B> ) has
also been deprecated and replaced with strong or something similar.
What works and does not work, of what has been deprecated, can also
depend on the individual browser, and, what each inmdividual browser
will allow or not.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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