What Was So “Wrong” With HTML 3.2

And why recreating it with PRESENTATIONAL classes is just plain stupid.

I’ve wanted to write a better explanation of this for the folks who “weren’t there” but lacked a decent example to work from. That changed when I got pointed at this article about Abe Hiroshi’s outdated website. It’s fun to see all the hacks, accessibility flaws, and just plain gibberish — even by HTML 3.2 standards —commonplace to markup that was once the norm.

Before we dive too far into his site — and showing how more modern techniques are better — we need to review what…