First, oops.

Second, basically trashing webpages that don't conform to the new standard rubs me wrong. It's nice to be able to separate content from layout, but it's not always needed or wanted, and shouldn't be mandatory.

I need to specify fonts in places where css isn't happening (homenodes) or where they make things more complicated than necessary. One Bad ThingTM about css are inlines that break offline. That last sentence required a font tag.

I remember when there was no font tag. If some people have their way i expect to see css eventually done away with. When css is superceded by the latest ultra-layout concept i hope it's at least retained as still useful, and for compatability with legacy content - just one more way to do it.

I hope that we're both satisfied to have aired some views on this and that further html discussion will take place via chatterbox /msg. This node is already too huge to host such a dubious debate :-)

Update: The "trashing webpages" comment is NOT referring to criticism of this script! See below for explaination.

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

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