- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 12:59:37 -0500
On 5/1/07, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote: > > Jon Barnett writes: > > > If <font> is allowed, then <font size> could be allowed, because a > > server-side script could more easily find <font size=7> and replace it > > with <h1>. > > Why would that be a correct thing to do? If somebody has made text > large for emphasis or other effect, then labelling it as a heading would > be wrong, surely? > > Smylers You're right. Such an engine would have to figure out if <font size> was being used as a block instead of inline in context, and at that point <h1> is still a guess. But that guess is more educated or simpler than the guess an engine could make at a <font style> tag. I guess I'm trying to think of any semantic benefit <font> has over <span> when editors use it and that's the best I could come up with. -- Jon Barnett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070501/ad3e0fd4/attachment.htm>
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