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RE: Depreciation of tags

ThomasHintz — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:56:17 GMT

Yes, they have deprecated a number of HTML tags. This is mostly because they are trying to develop better separation of content from how things look.

For instance, the reason why you should no longer use the [bold] tag, is because it tells the browser something related to how it should be drawn. HTML should only be used for content, CSS should be used for all styling. That is the same reason why the table tag is deprecated as well.

RE: Depreciation of tags

robrobin10 — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:54:23 GMT
Why on earth would you limit the use of the tag other than for the fact you didnt want to use it ?

I never excessively spammed it but I think its a bit strange that the search engines are penalizing people who excessively bold things.

Though I guess it is a tactic of internet marketers so it may be something the algorithims have been trained to pick out.

RE: Depreciation of tags

sean_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:12:43 GMT
Lot of people saying Dreamweaver is the best/good. Is that still the consensus? I just bought it, like using it, and now I hear about being compliant...lol. Only one client has been a stickler about it, but it's still good to know...

Have to build a music site and load times and google ranking are pretty important. I'm assuming the more compliant the less problems down the line right?

RE: Depreciation of tags

xclairityx — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:48 GMT
i hate that instead of 
you have to use 

RE: Depreciation of tags

anzer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:44:21 GMT
I use visual studio and it validates my HTML against W3C recommendations..

Another thing you can do is validate some of your pages in the W3C validator and see the result. Based on that change your codes

Link to the W3C validator is http://validator.w3.org/

RE: Depreciation of tags

Alex.D — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:17 GMT
I'm sad to see <.center> go....we had some good times together. So simple

RE: Depreciation of tags

DaveL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:00:13 GMT
Dreamweaver is arguably the best web design tool. I think the main reason for the depreciation of so many HTML tags is the fact that the web development world is going more focus on other technologies. HTML is the barebones of any website. We have so many other languages and technologies to handle the more advanced features of a web site. CSS for instance, it is a lot easier to create the skeleton of a website in HTML and then apply a CSS StyleSheet to it to interpret how it looks. Then we can simply apply another stylesheet to it when we want to change the look. If it were mostly HTML, then it would take us a lot longer to modify our pages.

RE: Depreciation of tags

tkparkins — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:58:00 GMT
I like Dreamweaver the best.

RE: Depreciation of tags

vdemon — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:29:30 GMT
Macromedia Dreamweaver is very respectable;)

RE: Depreciation of tags

rtcrafts — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:27:44 GMT
I use
a lot when I am using my business website and on myspace

RE: Depreciation of tags

chella — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:50:25 GMT
It's quite sad that some tags are getting shunned...

RE: Depreciation of tags

Webgirl — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:17:17 GMT
Well <center> tag is also depreciated so it would be good to learn some css then you can center your text or images. :P

RE: Depreciation of tags

shaye — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:55:41 GMT
Macromedia Dreamweaver is very respectable...definitely the number one web development software package available right now.

RE: Depreciation of tags

cesc — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:05:49 GMT
Well I've never trusted FrontPage; I only use Dreamweaver and my code is usually always compliant; in those rare cases where it isn't it is usually my fault.

RE: Depreciation of tags

techboy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:21:27 GMT
Frontpage does have that problem. If you are only using it for testing and learning purpose then you may start with it and after you are comfortable then you should use Dreamweaver.

RE: Depreciation of tags

night_day — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:18:04 GMT
[quote][b]netpal (1/26/2007)[/b][hr]Either Frontpage or Dreamweaver is very useful for having total control. I am using Frontpage and I let it handle. Though I am not totally convinced about the usage of tag, but yes I have also noticed that few are suggesting to limit the usage of tag.[/quote]

I would strongly recommened the use of another tool other than Frontpage. While it is easy to use, it produces some of the worst code possible for your site. Your page becomes very bloated with extra code where potentially it could effect your load times.

RE: Depreciation of tags

netpal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:16:38 GMT
Either Frontpage or Dreamweaver is very useful for having total control. I am using Frontpage and I let it handle. Though I am not totally convinced about the usage of tag, but yes I have also noticed that few are suggesting to limit the usage of tag.

RE: Depreciation of tags

night_day — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:20:52 GMT
[quote][b]Viral Unity (1/25/2007)[/b][hr]I use Dreamweaver a lot. It does a good job of keeping my code compliant.[/quote]

I agree with Viral Unity. Just ensure that you have a good IDE and let the IDE handle that. It's such a small thing that I don't think you should worry about it too much. I'm personally not a big fan of the compliance gurus who always insist on compliance when sometimes it just doesn't make sense to be 100% compliant on everything you produce.

RE: Depreciation of tags

Viral Unity — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:26:02 GMT
I use Dreamweaver a lot. It does a good job of keeping my code compliant.

Depreciation of tags

chillywilly — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:54:59 GMT
For those unfamilar with the term, it's suggested that certain tags should no longer be used. I also seem to be very behind on this kind of thing, without reading the W3C site everyday, how do you keep on top of this. For example, I used to love the tag, but people keep telling me not to use it anymore. Some tips would be appreciated! Thanks!