Remember the real old days when someone wouldn’t close a tag, and there would be pages of size 80 font flashing red text? When that happened in a MiaT thread, it would take hours to open on dialup.
Yeah. That's why styles don't work. Way too complicated to analyze and filter out harmful stuff. Used to be you could do stuff like <span style="background:yellow">some highlighted text</span>, and it would actually work.
You could also directly specify size 80 font. Now you have to do an approximation:
WTF‽
Yep. Lot of “quoted” threads had the italics version of the inverted-caps-lock-key-effect. Especially on hot threads where dozens of people were trying to close up a tag at the same time. I think that got fixed before Bush’s first run, IIRC; like 1999. Was definitely a source of amusement during the Impeachment.