Deprecated Elements - your thoughts?

Certain HTML 4.01 elements are deprecated - which means that they may not
be supported by HTML 4.02. Since there will never be an HTML 4.02, and
the resulting HTML may need to be machine-readable by XSLT transform, the
DIV tag with the deprecated CENTER tag might work better than the
equivalent CSSin rare cases. Also, simplicity is an issue.

Although use of deprecated tags does hard code a presentational element,
there are some benefits. My use is for pages that will not be changed
once written, but they may be repurposed.

What are other people's thoughts on <div align="center"> and "<img
align="left" (or right)>, in general and also with regards to
multipurposing a page written in HTML?

The Doormouse

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The Doormouse wrote:

Although use of deprecated tags does hard code a presentational element,
there are some benefits.

What benefits? The separation of content and presentation is a great
thing to lose - the substitutionary benefits had better be *big*.

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Ben M.

kchayka <usenet (AT) c-net (DOT) us> wrote:

The Doormouse wrote:

Certain HTML 4.01 elements are deprecated

I think this discussion might be more suited to alt.html or
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

I will post it there.

Thanks.

The Doormouse

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