- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:16:01 -0700
- To: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Rob Sayre<rsayre@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 6/12/09 5:44 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote > > Well, the question didn't seem to be as much "what good would it be to > abolish <font> from the web". That question seems easy to answer. > > If the answer is "it wouldn't be good", then I agree. What is your answer? In an ideal world, where we actually could abolish <font> from the web, having people use <span class="..."> would mean that we could reduce the size of the language (not a huge benefit, but something), it'd also reduce the size of pages if people used CSS applied to paragraphs, rather than putting a <font> inside every paragraph. Also, keeping stylistic elements in the language is a slippery slope. It's much better that we encourage people to use CSS than to try to duplicate CSS using tags and attributes. HTML would simply be a mess otherwise. > I interpreted the question as "why do we discuss what's conformant and > non-conformant if a lot of people are not going care about the > difference". My answer to that is "because some are going to care". If > that's not a good enough answer then I'd like to hear proposals for > what to do instead. > > That's a bad answer. People don't care about invalid markup if it works. > http://www.google.com would seem to be example number 1. So what do you propose we do? Not specifically regarding font, but regarding conformance requirements in general? / Jonas
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