|  | Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/26/07 15:05 
charles cashion wrote:> rf wrote:
 >  > "charles cashion" <tennis-fan@dunjas.com> wrote in message
 >  > news:Dflcj.3462$nh7.469@trnddc01...
 >  >
 >  >> Perhaps my question was a bit too terse
 >  >
 >  > Terse?
 >  >
 >  > Your original question was: "Can somebody tell me what is happening?".
 >  >
 >  > That was not only terse but is in fact a non question.
 >
 > rf: my question was two sentences long. If you take the
 > second sentence out of context, it is not very acute.
 > *BUT* I know what you are saying. It is desirable for
 > posters to refrain from obtuse pointless questions.
 >
 > I think I know what is happening.
 > If the firefox browser does not recognize
 > face=roman or face=times or any other non
 > recognizable face, it defaults to  Times
 > New Roman.
 >
 > Now my question is: Is it possible to change
 > the *default* font?
 
 If you don't know what fonts the user has, how could you presume to
 choose his *default* font for him? The user chooses his default font, or
 leaves it as was set in the browser when it was installed.
 
 >
 > OBTW rf is correct. One cannot nest fonts.
 
 Yes, one can. From the transition DTD:
 
 <!ELEMENT FONT - - (%inline;)*         -- local change to font -->
 
 and
 
 <!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special; |
 %formctrl;">
 
 and
 
 <!ENTITY % special
 "A | IMG | APPLET | OBJECT | FONT | BASEFONT | BR | SCRIPT |
 MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO | IFRAME">
 
 FONT can contain %inline, which can be %special, which can be FONT.
 There is no self-exclusion as there is for A or FORM:
 
 <!ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A)       -- anchor -->
 <!ELEMENT FORM - - (%flow;)* -(FORM)   -- interactive form -->
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