Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4300

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:24:06 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Steve

Firefox ran fine on my Win95 machine and still rnus fine on 98SE.

Hardware and software are independent: EULAs for later MS software are unacceptable to some of us; our families are uncomfortable with X.

RFCs are only a base for www interactions: the browser standards come as W3C recommendations, documented in TRs; W3C deprecated Navigator's (and IE's) font tag, and recommended using CSS and font properties in 1996 before HTML 3.2:

Or ignore all this layout stuff, if not attempting to render a representation of a physical document for historical purposes (e.g. approximates the original in most browsers, uses font tags only to render the colouring in the original, and otherwise uses only logical markup); trust readers to pick our own suitable default font characteristics (like being able to distinguish 0-O, 1-I-l, etc. without glbuttes); take a step back to before people decided it was easier to waste time picking fonts and effects rather than put in effort producing useful content, and use only the logical content markup these languages were originally designed to provide:

ABBR: Indicates an abbreviated form (e.g., WWW, HTTP, URI, Mbutt., etc.) HTML4. ACRONYM:Indicates an acronym (e.g., WAC, radar, etc.) HTML4. CITE: Contains a citation or a reference to other sources. CODE: Designates a fragment of computer code. DFN: Indicates that this is the defining instance of the enclosed term. EM: Indicates emphasis. KBD: Indicates text to be entered by the user. SAMP: Designates sample output from programs, scripts, etc. STRONG: Indicates stronger emphasis. VAR: Indicates an instance of a variable or program argument.

Q: Designates short quotations (inline content) that don't require paragraph breaks. BLOCKQUOTE: Designates long quotations (block-level content).

SUB: Indicates subscripted text. SUP: Indicates superscripted text.

Disclaimer: logical markup bigot from when GML (like AWK) was an acronym of the language designers' surnames, before the S prefix!

-- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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