OVERVIEW:
The world is full of people and things that come and go. Buildings that were once full of people can eventually turn into hollow rooms and empty spaces. Cities that were once popular and booming can become ghost towns for the poor. Even technology and music often has the same problem. We use new technology and disregard old technology. We listen to new music and try to forget old songs we no longer enjoy. The word that best describes things that still exist, but are no longer used is deprecated.
Hundreds of years ago, certain religious monks would punish themselves if they believed their bodies were full of sin. They would even take a whip and beat their own backs. This behavior was known as self-deprecation and had to do with “praying away” the bad. Today, the word deprecation is still used as a way of saying something is old, or bad, or no longer proper to use.
In HTML, a coding language that constantly changes, there are many deprecated tags and elements and attributes that were once used by every designer, but are now considered no longer appropriate for current designers who write with HTML5.
LEARNING GOAL #2: The Basics of HTML
Students will be able to design multiple web pages with HTML through the use of simple Text Editors.
More than 200 years ago, some of the most religious members of society would try to “pray away evil” from themselves or someone else. They called this flagellation or deprecation, from de- (against) and -prec (pray). Since that time, the word deprecation has been used by many others in society to describe something that they “strongly urge against using or doing.” In HTML, deprecated codes are any codes (tags, elements, or attributes) that can still be used, but are strongly urged against.
“It became clear to me that running the [W3C] would always be a balancing act, between taking the time to stay as open as possible and advancing at the speed demanded by the onrush of technology. This was not about having control over the Web, but about providing a place for people to come and find consensus.”