Re: <font color="blue"> (was ISSUE-32)

Shelley Powers wrote:
> With the new June 3rd addition to the HTML 5 specification that demands 
> active non-support for elements/attributes not specifically mentioned in 
> the spec, user agents are now told that they must not support 
> non-existent (never existed, or previously existed but now obsolete)  
> elements and attributes. According to the HTML 5 spec, FONT could then 
> be non-conformant, which means, if I read the HTML 5 spec correctly, 
> user agents _must not_ support the element.

No, the parsing section defines how font elements need to be parsed and 
the rendering section defines how to render them.

In the parsing section, search for "font" to see where the start and end 
tags for the font element, and the element itself, is handled throughout 
the tree construction phase.

In the fonts and colous rendering section, see the paragraphs beginning 
with "When a font element..."

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#fonts-and-colors

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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
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Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:44:12 UTC