[SpamCop-List] Re: BUG: Mozilla and font tags

[Chris Abbey]

Bob W. wrote:

> I keep hearing that thay've been deprecated, but is there a browser that 
> doesn't still support them? Has anyone heard of plans by any browser 
> publisher to stop supporting them?

yes. Mozilla. While IE was out chasing it's tail with DHTML Mozilla
quietly implemented a very strong DOM + CSS engine. If you as a 
content creator claim you're "4.01 strict" then mozilla will happily
ignore all that crap. I've been to a few websites that had the
4.01 strict dtd in their header (produced by a ms app) and they
looked like absolute garbage under mozilla, a quick validation
of their page showed too many errors of this type to count.

> I mean, I sure hope I don't have to go back and republish archived sites 
> using css...

just leave the dtd as 3.0 or whatever it was at the time and you're
fine for now. the exact presentation may someday in the distant
future look different, but there should be a "quirks" mode in most
browsers to handle old dtd, as long as you're specifying the dtd.