HTML 5

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