Update:

The World Wide Web Consortium's own Cascading Style Sheets language tutorial, Adding a touch of style, written 29th August 2000 by Dave Raggett section What about browsers that don't support CSS? recommends using HTML font tags. Case dismissed.

To be depreciated means there's a newer construct, not that the depreciated construct is obsolete. To the contrary, the spec calls for user agents to continue support for deprecated elements for backward compatibility. That means depreciated constructs should enjoy wider compatability!

In the long run, obsolete constructs seem like a worse idea than the bad constructs that become obsolete, imho. If TMTOWTDI in HTML then WTFN?

In reply to Re: perlvars (font tag) by epoptai
in thread perlvars by epoptai

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