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Posted by C A Upsdell on June 5, 2008, 1:21 am
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>> Because it's deprecated, so it will be in many old documents, and while
>> TRANSITIONING to a new DTD/version, it can be many of them are still not
>> 'caught'/altered. The moment of complete compliance, as soon as you're
>> done transitioning, you also have replaced all the language attributes
>> with type-attributes, and you can use STRICT. Using transitional for html
>> not transitioning is just silly...
>> --
>> Rik Wasmus
>> ...spamrun finished
>
> Interesting questions would be
>
> 1. Who created it? Why removed finally?
> 2. `type` is required even at HTML4 dtd, why people are only using
> `language`? (Due to incorrect implementation of Dreamweaver /
> Frontpage for example?)
Netscape 4 did not support TYPE, so LANGUAGE had to be used until
Netscape 4 became extinct, and even when it had become extinct, many
people continued to use LANGUAGE, perhaps out of habit.
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