- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:32:36 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/1/07 12:02 PM, "Andrew Sidwell" <takkaria@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 I think this bit of html should continue to work in future browsers but I wouldn't care if the author is upset that he can't change the font color dynamically via some dom scripting due to html5 not _officially recommending_ use of <font> or something. -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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