Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

BigSmoke wrote:


> The greatest struggle of previous years have been to encourage people to 
> abondon horrible contructs like bgcolor within the semantic mark-up.


Yes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
specifies that bgcolor is deprecated on all elements including table.

width and height on td and th also are deprecated.


> The point of semantic mark-up is that it contains just semantics.


... and structure :)


Tobi

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