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Re: Screen Resolution Poll
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:14:33 GMT
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> writes:
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> I think Netscape is partly to blame there.
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> This whole issue is one of the places that HTML has just
> totally failed on in my opinion. It gives font size
> options to both the writer and the reader, and no way to
> resolve conflicts. One problem is the use by writers of
> reduced font sizes. These should almost never be used for
> text other than superscripts and subscripts and the like
> (probably ok also for some fine print).
Don't think so. For fine print on paper there is the (weak)
excuse that one wants to save paper. This doesn't exist for
the web. The main reason for fine print is of course that
people don't won't you to read it, to screw you later if you
make a mistake. I as a customer find that rather offensive.
> It is also probably best to not ever use anything less
> than size -2.
Well, my way to turn off any messing around with fonts for
the author is to blow holes into those occurrences of `font'
or `FONT' in the netscape binary that occur among HTML
keywords. Real easy with Emacs, just use query-replace to
change the last letter (since Emacs version 20 you need to
use load-file-literally to avoid automatic transformations
of line ends).
And there are more holes in other pesky misfeatures
(color, animations). Makes the Web a lot friendlier to read ...
I hope that one day there will be some browser (Mozilla?)
where anybody can configure away features he doesn't like.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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| (...) Nah, that's not true -- font sizes are a good way to denote the relative importance of various bits of text. A legal disclaimer or copyright notice may be important, but conceptually, it's not the focus of the page, so it should be made (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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