In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06 Jan, Tim Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [Snip] > > > although bgcolor is a deprecated tag - CSS is preferred. See > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.1 for > > > more on this. > > For the g'zillionth time, it may be deprecated for new content but > > recommended that browsers support deprecated tags to support existing > > pre-deprecation content. IYSWIM > Hang on! I only said it was deprecated. I didn't say "don't use it, it > doesn't work". If you look through some of the tables I use myself, > you'll find that I use bgcolor rather a lot, and will be continuing to > do so for some time to come! I've found that putting bgcolor in <table> > tags has a mixed reception, not just in Netsurf, so I normally advise > people to put it in the cells rather than the header. Indeed. And I wasn't attempting to cast aspersions. IIRC there are only three (now obscure) tags which are obsolete and therefore not meant to be supported; all are replaced by <pre> which itself is, er, little used I suspect. Of course, bgcolor in the headers has a different effect to bgcolor in the cells or rows, as my example should have illustrated. -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
