On 5/1/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jon Barnett writes: > If <font> is allowed, then <font size> could be allowed, because a > server-side script could more easily find <font size=7> and replace it > with <h1>. Why would that be a correct thing to do? If somebody has made text large for emphasis or other effect, then labelling it as a heading would be wrong, surely? Smylers
You're right. Such an engine would have to figure out if <font size> was being used as a block instead of inline in context, and at that point <h1> is still a guess. But that guess is more educated or simpler than the guess an engine could make at a <font style> tag. I guess I'm trying to think of any semantic benefit <font> has over <span> when editors use it and that's the best I could come up with. -- Jon Barnett
