On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:22:25PM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> <rant>
>
> I am thoroughly frosted off with all the no-hoper web sites out
> there that specify the MS fonts in <font> tags. Whatta mess!
<font> tags?
They are deprecated
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT).
Real web authors use cascading style sheets, so they just go:
P {
font-family: crappymsfont, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14pt;
}
This is the Right Way to specify text presentation because older browsers
(the ones most likely not to have a specific font installed) will simply use
their default font (ie: the one the user selects) and newer browsers will
use the first font from the list that they find, defaulting to a sans-serif
font of the browser's choosing.
CSS makes a web author's life liveable and their pages readable.
Ian
PS: I often use the choice of `MS Comic Sans' in web sites as a way of
filtering out crap web sites.
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