[aclug-L] Re: Fonts and Browsers

[Wayne White <WWHITE1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:56 PM 12/12/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>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. . . .

Larry,

If you find a solution for this problem could you post it back here for 
those of use who suffer the same problem. It sure makes it hard to pick
linux over winblows to surf the web when half the pages can't be read.

Thanks,

Wayne