On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 06:10:37PM -0500, Nitebirdz wrote:
> Many of those sites are designed using TrueType fonts that are not free
> but do come bundled with commercial, popular OSes (mainly Apple Mac and
> Windows). The same fonts do not come bundled with Linux/UNIX, although
> they can be purchased or installed. Therefore, certain sites will look
> bad with a regular out of the box Linux, and changing the browser
> preferences will not fix it.
Which is the precise reason why in many cases I take the time to write a
polite mail to the webmaster in question (especially, if we're talking
about a non-English site, as often the special characters don't get
displayed properly) explaining why their design is flawed and offering
alternatives (e.g. having more than one font name in <font ...>). Often,
I also take the time to illustrate the problem with a small screenshot.
So far, almost all reactions were positive, as most of the "web
designers" in question simply didn't know that they're making a mistake.
Problem is, bad design tools like Netscape Composer or that MS stuff
don't help the situation.
If we want the WWW to stay platform-independent, we have to fight for
it.
My EUR0.02,
Thomas
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