- From: Ron Newman <rnewman@cybercom.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 12:53:03 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 5/20/96 at 8:44 AM , Warren Steel wrote: > I have no idea, nor do I care. Nobody has yet explained to me >why this tag is necessary or desirable. >Any distinctions it is intended to carry are lost on systems >that do *not* recognize it; True, but the same can be said of <BIG>, <SMALL>, <SUB>, <SUPER>, <INS>, <DEL>, and <STRIKE> (or is it <S> ?) *Especially* the last three, which are intended for use in revision-history or legal documents. In fact, a far as I can see, there is no real difference between <BIG> and <FONT SIZE="+1">, or between <SMALL> and <FONT SIZE="-1"> . >there >are many situations, unforeseen to authors, in which text can become >irrecoverably illegible or even invisible to a broad range of users. I'd like to hear more about this. >If frequently defeats all attempts at seaching and indexing based >on hierarchical headings. A properly designed search or index tool should skip over <FONT> tags just as it now skips over <B> or <EM> tags. -- Ron Newman rnewman@cybercom.net Web: http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/home.html
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