Re: Using font and tables vs. css and absolute positioning - was : JavaScript nonsense

Hello Thomas,

The font tag is depreciated because voice-browsers render it very badly.
When you want that people with only voice-browsers (that are most blind
people)  also see or better hear  your page reading to them, you must avoid
a font tag and use CSS to format your texts..

In my eyes blind people have also the democratic right to see my sites.So I
avoid fonttags and make my pages so accessible as possible, because that
also benefits all the visitors of my sites..
Assistive Technologies are often build on DTDs.. the more you are coding
according to DTD, the more your sites will be rendered well to disabled
people..

I also learnt that the more span tags I have, the worse my coding  is .  I
always yield out my span tags as much as possible when I overlook the code
of one of my pages for a second time..

Greetings

Ineke van der Maat



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Rumley" <redo4you(at)yahoo.com>
To: "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: RE: Using font and tables vs. css and absolute positioning - was :
JavaScript nonsense


>
> uh... okay.  My name is Tom and I'm a non-DTD a haulic.
>
> It's been 12 hours since the last time that I DIDN'T use a DTD on my web
> page <GRIN>.
>
> Adhering to strict HTML or transitional standard is all well and good. It
> helps assure that your page will display in the browsers that your
visitors
> use. But, when you use only the *standard* in html authoring you can lose
> out on a lot of opportunity.
>
> Think of how many people were using frames before they were ever adopted
> into W3C's standard. Think of how many people are using the "FONT" tag
even
> after the W3C thinks their a bad idea and deprecated them. (Deprecated is
> pronounced: dep- pre - kate -ed. Sounds like something you should do in
> private doesn't it?)
>
> I personally think FONT is the greatest tag that's ever come along. SPAN
> runs a close second.
>

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