[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Development (Was: Clean up

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:24:19PM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2002-03-01 um 12.43 schrieb Gabucino:
> 
> > It should assume default. And if someone argues with me about
> > standards, I say it's only natural for a browser for using default FONT
> > for <p>, because the standard is broken. Pity it doesn't use it for <td> .
> 
> A browser will always use the user defined fonts if you don't force it
> to use others with font tags. If it doesn't for <td> it's the browsers
> fault. 
> 
> BTW: <font> tags are deprecated in HTML 4.0 and up and were a special
> mockup introduced in the browser war.

Font tags were used especially by Microsoft to make sites look bad in
anything but Windows by using their very own fonts.

Font tags are evil ;-)

Diego