[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Development (Was: Clean up

[Diego Biurrun]

Gabucino writes:
 > Daniel Egger didn't RTFM :
 > > You can't have TABLE elements in FONT elements. Was never legal and will
 > > never be and that for a good reason: tables might be rendered completely
 > > different and trying to override it from an outer tag is cheating the
 > > DOM which will not work.
 > On the other hand, if I want a specific font in the TABLE, I'd tell it
 > so... I know what I want, so the program shouldn't know better.

HTML is not supposed to render the same in all places, so it is the
program's right to use whatever font it or the user specifies.  IMHO
font tags defeat the purpose of HTML, it was never designed for equal
rendering by all user agents.  I would love to see the font tag
disappear, especially since it will reduce the document's size by 40%
and I am willing to take the time for preparing a patch, but if you
want to keep it, so be it and tough luck for me.
Regards

Diego