You're Ready For The Future
Wireless Web - Introducing the future
For over a decade, the Web could only be accessed by a computer with a web browser. So, proper coding conventions were overlooked if the site looked OK in a web browser.
All that will change in the next few years as web-ready cell phone and PDAs-like the BlackBerry®-become more popular. With limited bandwidth and screen size, these devices will interpret HTML and display it in a "bare bones" manner. A site that is not properly coded — even if it functions in a wide range of browsers — will not work.
Deprecation - Phasing out old methods
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has deprecated some old tags in favour of using a new formatting technology called "style sheets". While deprecated tags will still work in current browsers, in the future they may not be.
Currently, a number of sites use a combination of style sheets and deprecated tags to effect their design. The reason is an attempt to maintain a site's layout and formatting in as many browsers as possible. However, new browsers will be released that will not understand the old tags, and not display the site correctly...forcing a re-vamp of the site.
If your site uses these old tags, you'll soon have to re-vamp it.
Example of "Deprecation"
When unleaded gasoline came out, leaded regular gas became deprecated. Cars could still use it, but drivers knew eventually it would be phased out.
After a few years, new cars would only run on unleaded gas and regular gas was no longer available.
