Font size, my discovery...

[Daniel R. Tobias]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

These meta tags would better be done as actual HTTP headers sent from
the server.

"windows-1252" is a proprietary Microsoft character encoding, so it
would be better to use a more platform-independent one like
iso-8859-1.

<p>Let's try some text in Times New Roman 12pt.</p>

This will, of course, show up in Times New Roman 12pt if and only if
that happens to be what the user's browser is configured to use where
not otherwise specified. If the browser configuration calls for
Copperplate Gothic Gold, or Zapf Dingbats, instead, then that's what
the user will get.

 

[Steve Pugh]

As Henry's example has skipped any doctype, then he's using HTML 2.0.
In such a case, <font> is perfectly correct.

Except that <font> was introduced in HTML 3.2...

Steve