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Saturday, May 3, 2003[12:59:49 PM]
Random Rant on the font tag....
Putting a font tag in every freaking table cell was pretty silly.
On the other hand, it worked. "Worked" in the sense of letting users pick the default text size, and reliably scaling the text size from there across platforms.
The fact that some designers picked the typically unreadable "font size=1" for body text was not the fault of the font tag.
CSS has a way to do essentially the same thing, but Microsoft broke it by picking different relative sizes than the rest of the world. That is, the CSS equivalent of size=2 is one step different on Windows IE than on most other browsers.
Then there's a Windows IE bug for sizing text with em units in CSS -- some users will see .9em as unreadably small.
I'm sure Billionaire Bill's heart breaks when he hears about these bugs that make it vastly more difficult to create websites that look OK on both Windows IE and other browsers.
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