Timwi wrote:
David Friedland wrote:
But the Wiki syntax isn't sufficient in its
current form. Accordingly,
we already allow <font> tags, they're all over the Wikipedia, AND
they're deprecated from HTML. At least <span> tags aren't deprecated.
Can you give an example of a page other than the main page that really
requires styling of this kind?
Timwi
Well, on the pages that have statistics tables, like the countries,
languages, etc, there are portions where the font size is enlarged or
decreased or the font color is changed using a FONT tag.
See:
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Language_Template
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Elements
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._States
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Universities
etc.
Now I'd be the first to argue that there need to be a consistent set of
styles for styling tables like these. However, such styles aren't
available and each WikiProject has devised its own method for styling
tables attractively, generally using FONT tags.
But I have run into FONT tags all over the place, probably inserted by
well-meaning contributors who didn't know how to do the wiki-styling
they wanted. Either FONT tags should be banned, or SPAN tags should be
permitted. (Or all FONT tags should be changed to SPAN tags).
-- David