Post #1994873

@freddy Is that a serious question? That was back when the web was largely static, JavaScript being a very basic language and almost never used for animations. These two were used to make things slightly dynamic, and they were annoying as hell. But I think the official reason was that had no semantic meaning and was purely presentational (still, was merely deprecated and never removed). I don’t really remember why was spared, but I suspect that removing was easy – it would just become static text, no big deal. might be used for overlong text and not supporting it would mean that part of the text became inaccessible.