Re: fwd:Fonts

William Perry (wmperry@spry.com)
Wed, 5 Jul 95 13:09 PDT


Alex Hopmann writes:

> > > A generic character-level text container tag in HTML 3.0 would be
> > > extremely useful for applying styles to certain blocks of text. I
> > > propose the following tag:
> > >
> > > <TEXT>...</TEXT>
> >
> >This would be very useful indeed, and will talk to Dave Raggett about
> >it.
> This seems similar in intent to the <C> tag that I propsed in my character
> formatting proposal (With the obvious addition of style sheet information).
>
> Is that correct? What are the relative merrits of calling it <C> (character)
> vs. <TEXT>?

The only difference I could see is readability (of both the HTML and the
stylesheet)

-Bill P.