Articles Tagged html elements

The internet has been around for a long while, and over time we’ve changed the way we think about web design. Many old techniques and ways of doing things have gotten phased out as newer and better alternatives have been created, and we say that they have been deprecated.

Deprecated. It’s a word we use and see often. But have you stopped to think about what it means in practice? What are some examples of deprecated web elements, and why … Read article “Why Do Some HTML Elements Become Deprecated?”

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I say “was” because it’s deprecated. It may still “work” (like everybody’s favorite <marquee></marquee> in some browsers), but it could stop working anytime, they say. The whole purpose of it was to display text in a monospace font, like the way Teletype machines used to.

Dave used it jokingly the other day.… Read article “The Teletype Text Element Lives On… at Least on This Site”

The following is a guest post by Catalin Rosu, who along with some colleagues, dug up a ton of data about the HTML content of web sites. This is the most recent study of its kind and wildly fascinating to see the results. I find it especially fun to compare the top results to what I would have guessed would have won.

We’ve all been there. We try to improve our HTML code making it clean, beautiful, and readable. … Read article “The Average Web Page (Data from Analyzing 8 Million Websites)”