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public-html-comments posting from: mbtawes@comcast.net http://www.w3.org/mid/583786989.941443.1306443252301.JavaMail.root@sz0036a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net To whom it may concern: I have been using HTML for almost 6 years now, and I always have used the <b>, <u>, <i>, <font>, <s> or <strike>, and  <center> elements because they allow for easy-to-read code and simpler editing. For example, I think that <b>some text</b> is much simpler than: <span class="bold">some text</span>. I also think that the align, alink, vlink, link, text, background, bgcolor,hspace, border, vspace, type, valign, width, height, cellpadding and cellspacing attributes for their respective elements are very useful and should not be eliminated. I think that HTML5 should be HTML5, not plain text with CSS. Please do not remove these elements and attributes. Thank you, Michael Tawes Webmaster Troop 918 http://www.ourshepherd.com/bsatroop918/default.htm
<b>, <u>, <i>, and <s> are currently valid. <font> and <center> are currently invalid, and are likely to remain so.
I say: keep: <b> <i> <u> <s> and kill (don't just deprecate) <center> <font> and the other tags that affect styling (except for: <b> <i> <u> <s>).
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: <b>, <u>, <i>, and <s> are already allowed. There are other bugs open asking to re-allow some of the other things you ask for, like bug 11812. If you would like further legacy presentational features to be reallowed in HTML, please give a specific explanation of why you would like each feature and why you don't want to use CSS instead.
mass-move component to LC1