They won't be invalid. THey'll be deprecated. That just means people should
stop using them and go for the alternative. But bgcolor will be with us at
least until HTML 5 (or 4.1 or whatever the next one is).

Ben Z. Tels
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lim Siew Yin <limsy(at)hitech.com.my>
To: HWG-Theory <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
Date: donderdag 4 december 1997 5:32
Subject: Re: HTML 4.0


>Any browsers have "plans" to implemented the above standard yet ?
>*CRINGE*
>
>Dont think it will be anytime soon ... IF things like bgcolor and etc will
>no longer be valid ... THINK of the MAJOR rework needed by MOST
>pages!   *Faint*
>
>I mean ... browser companies (especially the 2 biggies) are not
>gonna risk implementing the "strict" version and risk losing market
>share ... all the more in these critical time rite?
>
>Which company is gonna like it if one day their ppl come to them
>telling them they have ro re-work ... 99% ?  of their pages if they
>"UPGRADE" their browser ?
>
>
>LSY the newbie ... obviously.
>
>
>
>

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