On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
I have a website which discusses typography, web design, and computer
fonts. It recently occurred to me that my use of spans with style
elements was not really the most semantic method of getting across my
meaning, and I would be better using the
I have a website which discusses typography, web design, and computer
fonts. It recently occurred to me that my use of spans with style
elements was not really the most semantic method of getting across my
meaning, and I would be better using the font element.
My content goes something
That's an interesting one - but the idea of semantics for html is to
use an element of meaning, which the font tag lacks in every case as
it's a visual not a content representation? This is the same failure as
using a span tag for your example, since span has no meaning. The sad
part here is
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
My content goes something like this:
span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of Helvetica/
spanbr
span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span
If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its being displayed in
David Walbert wrote:
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
My content goes something like this:
span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of
Helvetica/spanbr
span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span
If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its
David Walbert wrote:
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
My content goes something like this:
span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of
Helvetica/spanbr
span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span
If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its
At 18:12 -0700 12/04/07, Bill Mason wrote:
Using an image would also avoid the issues that would come up if you
were demonstrating a font via markup that a user doesn't happen to
have installed. The browser could wind up defaulting to a
completely different font than what you were attempting
