[whatwg] <font> (was Support Existing Content)

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Adrian Sutton wrote:

> That said, by default our editor outputs the span tag version because we
> like to follow standards and I recommend using our styles menu to apply CSS
> classes and appropriate structural markup (headings etc). We did however
> have to go back and add an option to output font tags because of user
> complaints.

Why did these user complaints arise? How did the end-users tell the 
difference between the span and font elements?

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis