...why would you want to do this? Why not just print <font size=1 ...

Stylesheets are here to stay and they are a Good Thing. Font tags are deprecated. HTML tags and their attributes should only be used to mark the structural elements of your documents and CSS should be used to control the layout of those elements. But don't take my word for it, see what w3c has to say about it.

This is actually related to the problem of why CGI scripts shouldn't have HTML embedded in them (unless it's a simple script). Form and content should be kept distinct. I am constantly working on scripts that have CSS, Javascript, HTML and Perl all tossed together and blended well. Rarely are you working on all of the elements simultaneously. You focus on one at a time and this is tougher to do when their mixed (not to mention what happens when you're asked to change the look and feel of all of the pages).

Cheers,
Ovid

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