Re: label markup

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> > It would actually be more "modern" to do
> > 
> >  <span lang="en" font_desc="Serif Italic 10">Some Text</span>
> > 
> > Also, I think <font foreground="blue"></font> is a little odd.
> >
> 
> So you're suggesting simply s/font/span/g, or more than that?
> My HTML book seems to end with 3.2, so I'll dig up a 4.0 reference and
> copy what it has.

I'm just suggesting s/font/span/, and moving the <language>
tag to lang="" on span.

The way it is supposed to work nowdays in HTML is you do
all your style stuff as CSS for <span class="something">,
but in the absence of CSS, doing them as direct attributes
makes sense to me. (<span> also has lang, dir, and an inline
style attribute. I don't know if supporting dir by converting
it into the appropriate Unicode escapes is useful or not.
It can definitely be left for later.)

Regards,
                                        Owen