This tag is deprecated in HTML5, but I’m sure you know this ??
Yes – I do ??
why are you still using the <font> tag for the required fields, instead of a regular div?
“Why” has a lot to do with my development approach. There are a great many users who generally just update the plugin without concerning themselves too much with what has changed.
So, even though the plugin now has a whole bunch of filter hooks to handle fine-tuning the registration form, I know for a fact there are a lot of users who continue to build filters on the basic wpmem_register_form filter hook.
This particular hook filters the entire form HTML as a single string. So if a user is running a search/replace as part of his filter, and I change a tag, this could break that filter.
Obviously, there comes a point where I’ll have to force the issue and say that everyone will need to comply with the new. But for me, that’s not going to come until 3.0 comes out.
In the meantime, if you absolutely can’t use this tag (or any others), there are easy ways of changing the defaults. A lot of the defaults for the registration form can be changed by passing a new value to wpmem_reigster_form_args. In the case of this particular tag, pass a new value for req_mark.
