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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#11754: <center> voids font settings
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () suse ! com>
Date:       2000-09-26 18:32:12
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Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > <font face="Verdana,Arial" color="blue" size="-1"><center>This text
> > > should be blue !</center></font> </body>
> 
> And is bad HTML... I know about the problem, but it's unfortunately
> very hard to fix. This is because the font tag is used in inline
> *and* block contexts due to the broken html model of netscape-4. I
> once tried to fix that with some hack, but it broke far more sites,
> than it solved problems. I then played around a bit with <font> on
> netscape-4, and found out that it has some *very* strange rules as
> to where it applies the font tag and where not.

Hmm... I'm not suprised -- Netscape has a history of doing things as
screwy as possible.

Wouldn't it be possible, though, to just inherit font settings through
all child tags?  That is, say we have code like this:

<font color="blue"><center>Hello</center></font>

We could maybe treat this like:

<body style="color: blue;"><center style="color: inherit">Hello</center></body>

Or would this break too much?

> > Actually, it's not just <center>, <p> does it as well.  This results
> > in a LOT of sites that have a formatted first paragraph and then the
> > rest not.
> For the <p> case: How a browser should interpret it is:
> 
> <p><font>some text<p>more text -> <p><font>some text</p><p>more text
> 
> So the </p> has to close the <font> tag too... Unfortunately netscape does 
> differently in almost every case...

Hmm.. in *this* particular case, it does seem that Netscape is
somewhat consistent.  <font>...<p>...<p>...<p>...</font> will always
propgate the font changes through all the paragraphs.  Adding tables
screws things up.. but plain paragraphs don't seem to.
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Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
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