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Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 24 May 2001 20:21:14 GMT
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html and the web in general was designed to be about content not
presentation
about what was said not if it was 500 or 600 pixels wide
Anders Isaksson wrote:
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> (Answered in .general, as I don't read .off-topic)
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> "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:GDJ5u9.2BE@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.general, Johannes Keukelaar writes:
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> > > <pet-peeve>
> > > Please leave the size of my browser window alone! I'll determine how
> > > large I want the window to be. That is a very _rude_ bit of
> > > javascript.
> > > </pet-peeve>
> >
> > Now that's an interesting point. Do you often complain to book, magazine or
> > newspaper publishers about the physical size of their offerings?
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> It's a bit different, as the book, mag. etc. is published on paper, with a
> non-changeable font - browsers OTOH can give the user quite a lot of control
> over the font sizes, colors etc.
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> My myopic eyes for example, very much dislike small fonts, so I often have to
> set the browser to use a larger size. There are also many color combinations
> that are _very_ difficult to read, which make me turn the background off etc.
> etc.
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> Now, if your Javascript sets the browser window size _absolute_, not related
> to the _used_ font size, that's bad - if it follows the font size it might be
> OK, it depends on how large my screen is (and most pages do not test for
> that...).
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> > I created my site the way I wanted it to be.
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> And that's quite OK - that should be a main concern, but the next step should
> be to think 'how will others see it', as one of the main reasons for a web
> site is to show it to others, otherwise it could have stayed on the hard disk.
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> > I'm constantly resizing the darn window, ya' know?
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> I usually view full-screen, and don't want to resize at all.
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> Just _my_ 2 öre (very insignificant amount of $)
>
> --
> Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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> Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery/index.htm
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Daniel Staudt <dstaudt@hotmail.com>
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| "Daniel Staudt" <dstaudt@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet news:3B0D6D3A.1DA186...ail.com... (...) And you are saying? I don't get it if you are agreeing with me, disagreeing, or just commenting on something completely different? Probably my lack of (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (Answered in .general, as I don't read .off-topic) "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GDJ5u9.2BE@lugnet.com... (...) It's a bit different, as the book, mag. etc. is published on paper, with a non-changeable font - (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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