FONT is not carried forward into the XHTML specification.
FONT is a maintainability nightmare, which is the reason one uses CSS instead. One would no more use FONT to develop a production website any more than you'd write a text editor in FORTRAN. It is the wrong way to manage presentation.
By the way, SPAN is not just about fonts. SPAN is used to identify an inline section of markup for multiple reasons, which may include specifying font face. However it is also used to set 'hooks' for callbacks into the document object model for processing on the client side.
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Date: 2004-01-21 11:10 pm (UTC)As of HTML 4.01, the FONT element is deprecated.
See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT.
FONT is not carried forward into the XHTML specification.
FONT is a maintainability nightmare, which is the reason one uses CSS instead. One would no more use FONT to develop a production website any more than you'd write a text editor in FORTRAN. It is the wrong way to manage presentation.
By the way, SPAN is not just about fonts. SPAN is used to identify an inline section of markup for multiple reasons, which may include specifying font face. However it is also used to set 'hooks' for callbacks into the document object model for processing on the client side.
Consult Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards for more on this.