<font> tags should be removed (at least from logs)

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I know a geocacher who doesn't like the "Entry last edited ..." additions to 
his logs, and who tried to outsmart gc.com by setting the text color to white 
at the end of his log text. (GC will translate the [white] BBcode to the 
corresponding HTML <font fgcolor="white"> tag.) Of course, he doesn't close the 
tag... guess what happens...

Yes: all subsequent logs are unreadable - until someone else changes the font 
color again, and even then the closing tag will restore the white color :(
GeoToad's GPX output, which more or less copies log HTML verbatim, as a 
by-product may result in silent parsing errors, effectively dropping all 
subsequent cache descriptions in the GPX file. (And you will find out about 
that the hard way, when it's too late. gpsbabel is of no help as there's no 
problem with XML structure!)

Obviously it's possible to violate almost every HTML standard in GC logs.

To me, the only way to reduce the influence of such junk is, to reduce the 
presence of HTML tags in GeoToad output, in particular those present in logs.

<font> tags (triggered by [color], [code] or [size]) in logs are mostly used 
for "pretty" enhancements of the users' signatures, and for the nonsense 
described above.
While I see the importance of switching text sizes, colors, and styles in cache 
descriptions (even if most GPSrs don't know how to display them), I don't see 
the point of doing that in a log text. (If you have to be creative, do so in 
the log book.)

As a consequence, to make GeoToad more stable, I'm asking for removal of <font> 
and </font> tags. 
(There are more tags which may have the same effect - so the list may have to 
be enhanced later.)

Opinions?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Steve8x8 on 26 Feb 2012 at 5:27

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Addressed by commit r1084

Original comment by Steve8x8 on 2 Mar 2012 at 1:58

• Changed state: FixAvail

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Addressed by 3.14.9

Original comment by Steve8x8 on 14 Mar 2012 at 1:51

• Changed state: Fixed