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Bug 14686 - I'm a little worried about deprecating nearly all the table attributes. I have a web application which I have worked on for the past 5 years, I have already started incorporating HTML5 into it. But, if support for tables is removed, my web application w
Summary: I'm a little worried about deprecating nearly all the table attributes. I ha...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-11-03 14:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-11-03 15:44 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-11-03 14:05:16 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
I'm a little worried about deprecating nearly all the table attributes.  I
have a web application which I have worked on for the past 5 years, I have
already started incorporating HTML5 into it.  But, if support for tables is
removed, my web application will be ruined.  Is there anyway around this?

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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-11-03 15:44:58 UTC 
Deprecation doesn't mean removal.  There are *tons* of sites out there that rely on the table attributes for proper rendering, so browsers will probably never be able to drop support for them.

It's just that you, the author, are no longer allowed to use them if you want to call your site valid in HTML5.  But your old site will still work the same way as before, it'll just be invalid.