Posted by Peter J Ross on 09/10/07 17:45

In alt.html on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:41:59 -0500, JohnW-Mpls
<johnwfa@comcast.net> wrote:

> The good old <font> tag is deprecated which means something else is
> preferred. However, browsers dare not ignore it - far too deeply
> embedded in too many files. The use of css code is recommended but
> that always takes up more space for no technical advantage.

How does a single CSS rule, in a file referenced from a single line in
each HTML page, take up more space than dozens or millions of
identical <font> tags?

I suppose you could convert every <p><font> to <p style="font"> to get
the results you describe, but I don't think many people do that.

--
PJR :-)

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