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Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:38:07 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, rueger@io.com (Tim Rueger) writes:
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> I just don't see HTML going away as the lingua franca for web content.
> Web usage is exploding with present interfaces (i.e., HTML 3.2 browsers
> and 28.8 modems), so they will remain the standard to which websites
> should be designed if they are to reach the widest possible audience.
> [...]
Say, what do you think about HTML/XML extensions for doing line-art? (I
mean official extensions, of course -- if they can be standardized upon.
There are so many people competing for this right now, it frightens me.)
Anyway, it's not that things like GIFs are really very high bandwidth or
anything, but they are horribly inflexible compared to PostScript or some
other ASCII-based parameterizable image content format. Probably wouldn't
make sense to do icons as ASCII definitions, but -- gosh -- I'd just die for
something that allowed LDraw elements to be rendered into a 2D format for
quick display at any size right on the web page -- or to be able to
construct interconnected boxes even with straight lines. HTML & XML are
both flexible enough as tagged languages to allow for quite a bit of
expressiveness in graphics, I think.
--Todd
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 | | Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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| (...) Actually, my biggest complaint these days is their latency. It takes so long to download 30 little gifs used to put together a page on a modem. And I'd _love_ to have some fast connection, but the only one available here is a T1. And those (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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| (...) In theory, a bunch of small GIFs -should- load quickly with a page, right? As long as both the client & server are using HTTP 1.1 and Keep-Alive? I know what you mean, though... What a gunky thing to see a bunch of little image icons on a page (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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| (...) A great idea. I know of one proposed standard, from Adobe, Netscape, and IBM - PGML (precision graphics markup language). The W3 proposal is at: (URL) back to the "old technology browsers" thing, I'm glad we've agreed to disagree. :^) However, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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| (...) Websites that intentionally exclude the largest possible audience will lose in the marketplace. eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo seem to do just fine with plain old HTML, why shouldn't anyone else? (...) The designer had better be serious about those (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
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