Well, I agree with the typographical comment, but not with the recommended
action. I do not know which (if any) browsers are written to promote fine
typography or design, but I do know that a combination of poor defautls and
an inability to control the presentation on a per-page basis is the biggest
single factor that leads to `tag abuse', to inventing new tags (SIZE, but
not EMBED here) and to statements such as the one from International
Typeface Corporation's magazine.
Ending the Working group won't help with this.
Getting good solid standards-based style sheet mechanisms implemented in
major shipping browsers would be the biggest single step forward that I
can imagine, because the need for new tags would suddenly drop considerably.
Inclusion, extension and escape mechanisms such as REL/REV, EMBED (or, better,
<A REL=inline>) and <ALT> (or <FEATURE>) are also needed, and the discussions
that Netscape's proposal started are very helpful.
Back to business.
(and if anyone feels like writing to U&lc in protest at their article, I
would encourage them to do so! And anywhere else where such practice is
suggested)
Lee
-- Liam Quin, SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801 lee@sq.com <URL:http://www.sq.com/>