[aclug-L] Re: Fonts and Browsers

["Larry Bottorff" <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This doesn't really help. "Allow Scaling" only applies to the two fonts
specified, variable and fixed. The variable width font (mine's Times) only
gets used when the page author left the font as default. Today, however,
authors rarely leave fonts default, usually using CSS or in-line styling to
choose a sans serif font like Verdana or Arial. And overruling the author's
fonts and font size ratios is counterproductive for Web authoring. In the
past, I've produced a page (in Linux/emacs/NS), then had to look at in on
Win98-IE/NS to see how it renders--all for the greater audience still using
such stuff.

The really super sites literally develop separate pages for all the
different platform-browser combinations, then use scripting to tell which
page to send. It's madness. I'll check some of the newsgroups where I think
I've seen this issue discussed before. Supposedly, truly scalable,
anti-aliased fonts will come soon. . . .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:00 AM
> To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Fonts and Browsers
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Larry Bottorff wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any information on fonts and especially how they
> > render in (what I assume to be the only Linux browser) Netscape?
> > Compared to IE and NS, NS on Linux always renders fonts shrunken
> > (ca. 50% smaller) and jaggy.
>
> Edit:preferences:fonts.
> There's boxes to check for 'Allow to scale' or not.  Also you can
> force the size of them (by picking the size then checking the radio
> box below for 'Use my default fonts').  I personally always force a
> decent-size font because I don't like web page designers making it
> hard for me to read.
>
> Yes, I'd rather use lynx.
>
> -jeff
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