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

Hi Tom,

I thought the newer browsers wouldn't support deprecated or discontinued
tags, but the old browsers still in use would of course.

And the older browsers would work only if the page has a DDT for that level
of html which the older browsers understand (eg HTML 3.2). That was my
understanding of it, I hope someone will set me straight if not.

Personally I find the FONT tag very annoying to use and have embraced css,
as it is much easier epecially for font and text designations - just set it
and forget it - and I am rather lazy. :-) But then,I am not dealing with
picky clients as many of you are. I feel a person new at html should focus
on using css and use it exclusively unless they have a particular audience
that can't read it.

Regards,
Pam Shorey



> Using both the font tag and tables in addition to css is probably a good
> idea.
>
> Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not adhere to the css standard
> completely. And as far as that goes neither does Netscape. As a result
your
> page may not display the same way you intend it to in either browser.  But
> for those browser(s) that even have a partial understanding with css,
you'll
> find that you're page does display better than without css.
>
> FONT  is a very useful tag. As it allows you to set the color, size, and
> font type; I would argue that it is the most useful tag within the HTML
> language. It has been deprecated by the W3C however. What this means is
that
> the standards organization has officially suggested that web authors do
not
> use the tag. Instead they are leaning hard in favor of css and supposedly
> will remove the font tag entirely from the standard at some point in the
> future.
> ....

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