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  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) Personally, I made a conscious decision to check out your site out of interest and support for a fellow AFOL. Its a trust relationship between developer and user. You abuse my trust when you invite me into your domain and then monkey with my (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) I always have virtually all my windows maximized for reasons of visibility. Not only browser windows, but mostly everything. And I use ALT+TAB to change between them. It's as easy as a piece of cake, and I hardly use the mouse at all! :-) (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) Oh...oops...thanks Larry! What I meant was *shouldn't* (...) ding ding ding...give that man a prize! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) Should, or shouldn't dictate? My view is that you can suggest, but should design for the ability to fit into the window the user is using (within reason, 200x300 may be a bit confining) and for resizability (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) And see, I always browse with multiple browser windows open at one time, so I almost never maximize any of them so that I can easily switch between windows. (...) I agree, but as shown above, people have different ways of doing things. In (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
A small typo slipped in... must have been cosmic rays, as I never make misteaks, just ask me. (...) this should read (...) Sorry about that. As of this post all the posters to this thread are against fixed size. But that is an totally unscientific (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  RE: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) I *do* find it annoying when one tries to fit a legal size sheet of paper in a letter size folder, but that's beside the point. (...) I like to browse with the window maximized (at 1152x864 res) because it blocks out whatever other noise lurks (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber wrote: [snipped rant] (...) I think that webpages are in a different medium than print material, and the rules of one don't necessarily apply to the other. Forcing browser-window size changes is rude. Especially (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) Not sure what you mean by that and not going to dig into it but it doesn't sound right to me. (...) I'm not taking anything personally, and I hope you aren't either. So I'm not insulted. What I am, however, is *confused* about where you are (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO Inspired Fonts For Macintosh And Windows
 
(...) The whole point of HTML is that it is not a static book or magazine, but a dynamic representation that is interpreted by the local style and preferences of the user. Much kludging has been done since the original DTD to try to allow marketing (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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