- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 06:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Dave Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 1996, MegaZone wrote:
>
> > <center> is *not* experimental, not is <font> What they documented in 3.2
> > have been tested in the field for months and behavior was documented.
> > The very fact that they *are* in 3.2 means they are not experimental.
> > <center> is basically an alias for <div align=center> now, and it is there
> > to allow for the huge number of legacy documents that used it since there
> > was no other way to center for such a long time.
> >
>
> Of course they are experimental, they are implemented in very few
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> browsers.
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[snip]
Ok. Not to contribute to this out of control spiral - but the underlined
statment is simply and provably WRONG. Even a brief look at the
BrowserCaps results would have told you that FONT and CENTER are used by a
clear, and steadily increasing, *majority* of brands of browsers today. My
count gave seventeen seperate brands of browsers that support the FONT
tag for at least sizing, and only twelve that did not. Noticably *all* of
the ones that do not are extremely low market share players (< 5% total
combined market share).
The CENTER tag is even more universal. I could only five brands
of browsers that *don't* support it - compared with twenty six
brands of browsers that *do* support the CENTER tag.
Whether you count browsers by number of users or by number of brands -
FONT and CENTER are clearly used by most browsers - not 'very few'.
--
Benjamin Franz
Received on Friday, 10 May 1996 09:13:01 UTC