Re: Psychology and usefulness

david (david@bacall.nepean.uws.edu.au)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:48:00 +1000 (EST)


On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Mike Batchelor wrote:

> > Now this is interesting... deprecate a tag that doesn't exit. Correct me
> > if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the only place that BIG and SMALL
> > exist is in the HTML 3.0 draft, and I don't believe any browsers
> > implement it, either. So why not just forget they ever existed, and not
> > bother with the deprecation?
>
> Mosaic 2.6beta implements <small>, but not <big>.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that HTML 3.0 is still just a draft (a
moving target by definition), and since that version of Mosaic is itself
just a beta (software's equivalent of a draft), surely it could be
quietly forgotten.. . . . .

dave