- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:39:11 +0200 (EET)
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, David Perrell wrote:
> Once loaded, fonts should be accessible without regard to method of
> loading, so that if 'web-font' were a downloaded font, even FONT
> FACE="web-font" would still render in the font. Given Netscape's past
> record of ad hoc tag invention, I worried that there would be some very
> focussed font load/specify solution that couldn't evolve and would
> require a new mechanism if, say, DSSSL were supported later.
I would think that this falls into the area of proprietary tags that can be
simply viewed as equivalents to CSS directives in the future. I.e. a
CSS-enabled browser should translate
<FONT ...></FONT>
into
<SPAN STYLE="..."></SPAN>
This goes for most proprietary tags in use today, with the exception of
frames, possibly.
--
Stephanos Piperoglou aka Sneakabout - http://users.hol.gr/~spip/index.html
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Received on Thursday, 5 December 1996 09:39:47 UTC