  opinions on deprecated code plus  From: Alice Anderson
<alice.anderson@doit.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:41:13
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ig@w3.org All, we're having a discussion on campus, and I'd like
a few more opinions. thanks in advance.  1. The wiggle room on
the deprecated code issue is the wording; it says "avoid" not
don't.  2. It is still necessary or maybe easier to use
deprecated codes, particular attributes, at times to get pages
to display correctly since style sheets do not always produce
the desired results.  XXX is correct that they don't adversely
affect the accessibility of the sites and that is really the
point. Until style sheets of some other method is universally
adopted this will be an on going issue. I think we should try to
not to use dreprecated code but we should get to hung up on it
either.  I commented on the use of the ATTRIBUTES "bgcolor" with
the BODY tag, "align" with the P tag, and "width" with the TD
tag.  The XXX webmaster thought I w