- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:17:28 -0800
- To: Amanda Tunison <amanda.tunison@SONOMA.EDU>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 7:05 PM -0800 12/14/00, Amanda Tunison wrote: >The main thing you accomplish by using the font tag instead of style >sheets is to force your display preferences on certain users instead >of making them optional as they are with style sheets. I disagree, because style sheets aren't yet at the point where the implementation is up to what they should be either. E.g., if you are using Netscape, how exactly does the average user change her default stylesheet? If you are using IE, how does the average user (who can't write her own stylesheet, let's assume) know how take advantage of IE's superior stylesheet support? I don't think it's as clear-cut a win for CSS (although I do agree that <font> is far from an ideal!), and it's also complicated by the existence of browsers which DO allow you to easily override even the <font> tag. --Kynn PS: Most web designers use style sheets because they want to force their display preferences on users. It's a fact of life that designers ALWAYS want to force presentation whenever possible; few (if any) designers make a conscious decision to use CSS "because they are optional." That line of thinking doesn't enter their thoughts; instead, CSS is viewed as a superior way to do what <font> does, not a a more "user-friendly" way. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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