What Does Font Size -2 Mean Here?

I see this from source code of a web site: @2009 What does it mean when size is negative?

Solution 1:

That is a deprecated style of markup. Nobody should be using it anymore.

Back in the old days, before CSS, you could use the <font> tag to control the relative size of text on the page. A "-2" simply meant two sizes smaller than your base font size.

Font sizes ranged from 1 to 7 in first generation browsers, if I recall correctly.

Solution 2:

It means the font size of @2009 should be -2 units (i.e. 2 units smaller) relative to the content around it.

Solution 3:

It means two notches smaller than the default text size in the browser.