On 6/15/09 7:31 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > The specific question: "amend the spec or file and fix bugs"? Which > do you (Jonas) think is more appropriate in this instance (font > color)? Don't worry about the current state of tools or timeframes: > what I am curious about is your thoughts on what the long term goal > should be. My opinion was not asked for, but I can provide some context. I've asked why <font> is disallowed by the spec, while inline style attributes are allowed. Here's the answer I got[1]: <sayrer> but why is it different than an equivalent style attribute? <Hixie> it's not. style="" attributes are just as bad and should be limited to things like prototyping and temporary workarounds. My two cents: implementors have better things to do than change the serialization of font elements, since there is no benefit, but there are risks. - Rob [1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090415#l-39
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