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Re: Screen Resolution Poll
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:19:40 GMT
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mattdm@NOMORESPAMmattdm.org
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Juergen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> wrote:
> 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.
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 smaller.
> 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).
Won't work with CSS, of course.
> I hope that one day there will be some browser (Mozilla?)
> where anybody can configure away features he doesn't like.
Why not just use lynx?
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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