- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:02:21 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > > > > Adrian Sutton wrote: > >> If you outlaw the <font> tag, you'll just get <span style="font-family: >> ...."> instead which has no more semantic benefit and is far more > difficult >> to work with. > > I'm sorry, I disagree : I can disable document-embedded CSS in > my browser, if I find a document difficult or impossible > to read -- I don't believe there is any corresponding proposal > to allow browser users to specify which sub-set of tags the > browser should ignore. A quick test-case: <!DOCTYPE html> <html><body> <p><font color="green">This should be green.</font></p> </body></html> Shows that at least Firefox 1.5, when View->Page Style->No Style is selected, the text "This should be green." is not green. I see no other option in IE 7, and my installation of Opera seems to have gone walkabouts. Andrew Sidwell
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