[whatwg] Semantic use of the <font> element
Dave Singer
singer at apple.com
Thu Apr 12 18:32:35 PDT 2007
At 18:12 -0700 12/04/07, Bill Mason wrote:
>Using an image would also avoid the issues that would come up if you
>were demonstrating a font via markup that a user doesn't happen to
>have installed. The browser could wind up defaulting to a
>completely different font than what you were attempting to
>illustrate.
>
I think we are all in violent agreement here. If you are trying to
say something visual ("it looks like this"), then nothing works quite
like a picture. Sounds like a truism, I know.
--
David Singer
Apple Computer/QuickTime
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