Comment 386 for bug 353877

(In reply to Scott Trenda from comment #374)
> I don't know what debates have taken place within the working group on
> this topic

All presentational features, such as <font>, align="", etc, were dropped in the new HTML standard, because they have been deprecated for over a decade and there's really no longer any reason for anyone to be using them in new documents. These features are now completely obsolete and it is non-conforming (invalid) to use them in HTML documents. I would not expect this to change even if browsers added support for this feature.

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