As for the real value of savings, if you have a lot of font tags the best way to deal with it is to put the fonts types you want as classes in a CSS. Then you can just <p class="stdfont" > to set the font for a particular block.

If you have a lot of font tags, that would clean up things far better than using the depricated font tag.

A final note on the 12% savings quoted above, You would only save that much if your entire webpage was made of font tags. There is no savings in the text. So as a whole, you save very little by "cleaning up" the font tags. And you loose your HTML compliance to boot. It is a bad idea and definately the Wrong Thing to do.
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Crulx
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In reply to Re: making html smaller by Crulx
in thread making html smaller by visnu

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