[thelist] CSS: Unix and font sizes

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Sat Apr 14 10:58:33 CDT 2001


On 14 Apr 2001, at 15:13, Philippe Jadin posted a message which said:

> I either use nothing, or I use the deprecated <font> tag. This may sounds
> stupid, but I don't care about the fact it is deprecated, the fact is that
> it's a simple and *working* solution. When "em", "%" or "pt" will work, I
> will use them. In the mean time, I won't bother with this anymore (let me
> add that I used to).

"Deprecated" comes from the Latin precari "to pray" 

Let us give thanks for deprecated syntax, because it works in *all* 
browsers, not just the shiny new ones. 

deke


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