- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 07:20:30 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Vadim Plessky wrote: > replacement of <font> with <span> is already great by itself, and things like span doesn't replace font (except in as much as any attribute of font is allowed on any other inline element). Although it is common for authoring tools and cut and paste coders to use span as though it were an equivalent for font, it should, actually, only be used as a last resort, when there is no more precise structural element that can be styled. E.g. a second level heading that should have a particular appearance should have the style applied to the h2, not as a span within it. > there is no warranty that TABLEs will be supported by future (X)HTML > sepcifications. And Tables module is *optional* in CSS3 - it is *not In reality, mass market browsers will continue to support legacy versions of HTML until authors stop using them. In fact, this is the reason why one should write to the minimum version of HTML that does the job (which may mean writing to a pre-tables version then using styles (link should work on new browsers).
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