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I think what we all took away from the latest conference is that the Future of Web Design isn’t clear yet. It expanded on a conversation I had with a friend the other day where we decided that in the last few months web standards has hit a lull. During @media2005 everyone was so excited to be there talking shop and swapping ideas that we couldn’t wait to get back to our desks to put into practice what we’d been shown - zoom layouts, microformats, etc. But fast foward 2 years and there just isn’t anything to get our teeth into.

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April 25, 2007

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In this series of articles I have described how to remove the deprecated attributes in HTML and replicate the styles using CSS. The first part looked at hspace and vspace, type and border. Part two described how to replicate link, alink and vlink, size, noshade and clear. In this final part I will be mopping up width, height, bgcolor and align.

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March 8, 2007

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In Part 1 of CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes, I described how to replace HTML’s deprecated attributes with CSS, which is more flexible and inline with web standards in use today. If you want to convert an existing site that is using out of date practices or want to understand how to bring your own development up to scratch, then these articles are for you.

Let’s get straight into it with link, alink and vlink. I’ll also cover clear, size and noshade.

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February 10, 2007

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When HTML 4.0 was introduced some attributes became deprecated. Browsers continued to support them to ensure older sites continued to display correctly, and developers were urged to stop using them in favour of more flexible alternatives such as CSS.

The deprecated attributes were purely presentational, meaning they are only of benefit for the way the element will look. We remove presentational aspects to a CSS file to separate content and structure from the look of a web page. This has many benefits for the user, developer and holder of the bandwidth purse-strings.

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February 2, 2007

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In a recent article, Marco Battilana wrote about how he ensured his standards-compliant designs remained so after handing them over to a client. His solution was to target the depreciated tags and attributes and style them using BRAT, which made the developer acutely aware that there was some problem behind their WYSIWYG‘d page.

I had a similar problem a couple of years ago when I was employed by a company to tidy up front-end code and to design a cleaner looking user interface and I had to come up with a subtle way of steering them in the right direction.

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October 7, 2006

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