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Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ?

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Siard <saylor259@mailbox.org> wrote or quoted:
><p style="font-size:16px">Not a <span style="font-size:24px">big</span> problem</p>

  That reminds me of HTML 3.2:

BIG   places text in a large font 
SMALL places text in a small font

  . And here's the rant by a hypothetical HTML 3.2 engineer:

|You young coders think you're so sophisticated with your
|bloated attributes, but look at that hideous snippet: you are
|literally hardcoding a rigid, pixel-exact physical size right
|into your content! That completely destroys the soul of the
|Web. Back in my day with HTML 3.2, <BIG> and <SMALL> were
|beautifully abstract and truly scalable; they didn't force a
|dynamic screen into a static 24-pixel cage, they simply told
|the browser, "Hey, make this structurally larger or smaller
|relative to whatever font the user prefers." It was semantic,
|elegant, and infinitely more adaptable to unknown screens
|than messy, inline CSS clutter that confuses styling with raw
|structure!

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multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Dale <dalekellytoo@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 08:25 -0400
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    Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Dale <dalekellytoo@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 08:59 -0400
      Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-06-28 18:13 +0200
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      Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-06-30 08:45 +0200
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          Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2026-06-30 13:23 +0200
  Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Siard <saylor259@mailbox.org> - 2026-06-28 14:53 +0200
    Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-28 13:40 +0000
    Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-28 23:14 +0000
  Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 22:23 +0800
    Re: multiple text sizes in one sentence ? Dale <dalekellytoo@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 11:52 -0400
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