[thelist] CSS Font Sizes, was one more thing about...

Calum I Mac Leod calum at ciml.co.uk
Tue Feb 27 13:44:52 CST 2001


Aylard JA (James):
> [ calum: ]
> > Using BIG and SMALL as a transitional approach is, IMO, valid (in the
> > general sense as well as the [SG|X]ML sense).  I'd quite like to go
Strict
> > for everything, but I'm not inclined to send old browsers to hell and I
> can
> > sympathise with those who don't want to learn what NetExploder4 does
with
> > CSS %.
>
> Remember that <small> and <big> are *not* deprecated, so you can use
> them and still validate with a strict dtd.

Thanks, James.  I've tried hard to forget that BIG, SMALL, B and I are in
Strict.  It seems to have worked.  ;-)

I've always found the following a little odd:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2
  "The following HTML elements specify font information.
   Although they are not all deprecated, their use is
   discouraged in favor of style sheets."

If their use is discouraged, why not deprecate?  I looked through the
www-html at w3.org archives a while ago but couldn't find any good reason.
Odd.

Calum
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