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Why would Google use a font tag?


So, I couldn't help noticing while demonstrating Chrome's DOM browser thing to my brother, that Google uses a <font size=-2> tag.

I know this is a stupid question, but from a programming point of view--why would they use a deprecated tag on Google? Is it because it's smaller than using <p class="whatever"> and then creating a style for it, or just going <p style="font-size: x-small">?


Solution

  • Saving a few bytes on the Google homepage likely saves them terabytes of transfer bandwidth.