<font> tags!

[Daniel15]

I just noticed that the PHP syntax highlighting used with the [ code ] BBCode generates <font> tags! (which are deprecated in XHTML, I think) Have a look:

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<?php
 echo 'This is a test';
?>


Produces:

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<div class="codeheader">Code:</div><div class="code"><font color="#000000"><font color="#007700">&lt;?</font><font color="#0000BB">php<br />&nbsp;</font><font color="#007700">echo&nbsp;</font><font color="#DD0000">&#039;This&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;test&#039;</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?&gt;</font></font><br /></div>


I believe that it should be using <span> tags instead?

EDIT: Strange, it uses <span> tags here. My testing SMF 1.1 RC2 installation uses <font> tags?!

[Thantos]

SMF uses the PHP function highlight_string() which uses font tags on PHP 4 and span tags on PHP 5.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

[Daniel15]

SMF uses the PHP function highlight_string() which uses font tags on PHP 4 and span tags on PHP 5.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

Oh, right. I should have checked that.
Anyways, I suppose you can close this topic then