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Jukka K. Korpela  
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 More options Jan 23 2008, 7:46 am
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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:46:33 +0200
Local: Wed, Jan 23 2008 7:46 am
Subject: Re: HTML5 draft released~
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Scripsit Andy Dingley:

> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#the-font

> The font element doesn't represent anything.

Please tell me you're making this up!

Oh no... you _are_ quoting the "HTML 5" draft.

> It must not be used except by WYSIWYG editors,

Cool... so everyone and his brother will regard themselves as WYSIWYG
editors.

>  <font style="display: block; border: solid">
>   <h1>Hello.</h1>
>  </font>

> Well, that works for me...

Oh yeah... and since probably no existing WYSIWYG editor spits out
_that_ kind of half-digested tag soup, it must be an encouragement into
writing such tools.

There's really no reason to exclude, deprecate, or abjure the <font>
element or to pretend it's nothing, or that it doesn't represent
anything. It has a simple meaning and some reasonable use (namely when
discussing fonts or when reproducing printed or digital documents so
that their original appearance is to be retained as far as possible) and
lots of nonsense use. But people who use tags nonsensically won't stop
doing so just because some specification says they shouldn't use those
tags at all - especially if the same specification requires that browser
support those tags forever.

The sadest thing about "HTML 5" is that it will be impossible to create
an April fool's joke about HTML this year - they've already done that.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


 
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