both the <MENU> and <DIR> tags (or their html3 equivalents, <UL PLAIN> and <UL PLAIN WRAP=HORIZ>) give bulleted lists, rather than omitting the bullets as should be the case. In addition, the <DIR> tag does not display multiple columns as it should (this is not implemented in netscape 4.07 or iexplorer either).

MENU and DIR are deprecated. The HTML specs do not give normative statements regarding layout. Thus we are not breaking any specs. I would recommend WONTFIX, since there is no point in encouraging the use of deprecated elements. CSS3 may introduce rules regarding columns. qawanted: need a testcase.

FWIW, I agree that this should be 'wontfix'.

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

OK. The HTML 4.01 spec says these are deprecated and just points you to the Transitional DTD for their definitions. These definitions say nothing about multiple columns and the spec does not give any statements as to how the elements should be rendered. The HTML 3.2 spec says: "These elements have been part of HTML from the early days. They are intended for unordered lists similar to UL elements. User agents are recommended to render DIR elements as multicolumn directory lists, and MENU elements as single column menu lists. In practice, Mosaic and most other user agents have ignored this advice and instead render DIR and MENU in an identical way to UL elements" So these are deprecated, and even when they were not no one rendered them right anyway, so it's not like we're breaking backward compatibility or messing with people's expectations. In fact, in strict mode we should drop these because they are deprecated and in quirks mode we should be compatible with previous netscape versions. In light of all this, marking wontfix. Removing qawanted keyword.

qa contact updated.

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug 88132 for details.

Verified wontfix