Re: HTML4.0 draft: comments re: inclusion of frames (fwd)

Iain Wilkie Logan felt an urge to reveal at 4:12 PM -0500 on 1997-09-17:
> > Besides, Netscape offered the use of various fonts, so
> > that they could be cross-platform (I always used about three or four
> > different varieties, just to be safe).
>
> The only concern I would have is where the use of FACE would render the
> affected text meaningless on platforms where the font is not available -
> certain symbol fonts might come into that category for example.

This is only a problem if you depend on the FONT attribute for
informational rather than presentational purposes, much like using images
of text rather than text itself.

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Received on Wednesday, 17 September 1997 17:43:26 UTC