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Hi G,

Tuesday September 18 2007, G writes to Gufus:

> From: .@.
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
> Don't cha just love it when everyone knows what's best?

Thanks.

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K Klement

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In article <>,
(Gufus) wrote:

> Hi Beauregard,
>
> Tuesday September 18 2007, Beauregard T. Shagnasty writes to All:
>
> > From: lid
> > Yep! According to Gufus' sig, this appears to be his web
> > site:
>
> So?

B is asleep at the moment, so allow me. I think he might have
meant that your site starts off with (dictates) unnaturally
small fonts and therefore hard to read as is. B does not think
you should be using Transitional doc type unless you are
transitionaling from something. And there are other things about
the heavy use of javascript that I dare not go into that he will
be raising an eyebrow about.

Honestly, Gufus, better let him sleep, because if he wakes
prematurely, I am getting out of here, sparks are a goin' to
fly...

--
dorayme

Gufus wrote:
>
> Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
>
> This is best, then you should be compatible with everything.

If you want to be compatible with everything, drop the first 3 choices
there.

- Verdana has known problems, which others have commented on.
- Arial is just plain ugly - why choose an ugly font just because it's
common?
- Helvetica is highly variable, thus unpredictable. Compare URW to Adobe
Helvetica to see for yourself.

The generic sans-serif wins by a landslide. Or the generic serif if that
style goes better with the overall design.

Or here's a novel idea: leave the family out altogether and let your
visitors decide for themselves what font to use.

--
Berg

dorayme wrote:

> Honestly, Gufus, better let him sleep, because if he wakes
> prematurely, I am getting out of here, sparks are a goin' to
> fly...

<lol> You expounded on just about everything - except the purple
background.

For some reason, Gufus' posts do not arrive in my newsreader. Yours come
in as a direct reply to mine. Doesn't seem to be anything in my killfile
that would affect his posts (which I found at GG).

Gufus said "So?"
Would I hire a web designer whose own site I could not read?
That second paragraph on G's main page is .. well .. funny!

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-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Animesh K wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> Andrew S. wrote:
>>>> Fonts which way do you believe it is better to use in html a "%" or
>>>> a "pt"?
>>> http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
>> Actually IE 6.0 has has problems in displaying diacritics (characters
>> with a dot-below the alphabet) with "Trebuchet MS". I prefer Tahoma
>> over Trebuchet for that reason.
>
> Didn't know that, as I don't use diacritics in any of my pages.
>

Link this for a proof:

http://stutimandal.blogspot.com/2007...akastakam.html

This page shows fine in FF or Opera. Safari/IE7.0 put slightly bigger
replacement characters. And IE 6.0 just fails.

I guess Trebuchet MS lacks the diacritics fonts. (though it is just a
dot above/below the regularly ASCII alphabets).

Best,
A

Animesh K wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Animesh K wrote:
>>
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>> Andrew S. wrote:
>>>>> Fonts which way do you believe it is better to use in html a "%" or
>>>>> a "pt"?
>>>> http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
>>> Actually IE 6.0 has has problems in displaying diacritics (characters
>>> with a dot-below the alphabet) with "Trebuchet MS". I prefer Tahoma
>>> over Trebuchet for that reason.
>>
>> Didn't know that, as I don't use diacritics in any of my pages.
>>
>
> Link this for a proof:
>
> http://stutimandal.blogspot.com/2007...akastakam.html
>
> This page shows fine in FF or Opera. Safari/IE7.0 put slightly bigger
> replacement characters. And IE 6.0 just fails.
>
> I guess Trebuchet MS lacks the diacritics fonts. (though it is just a
> dot above/below the regularly ASCII alphabets).
>
> Best,
> A

And here the same text displays fine in IE 6.0 with Tahoma

http://www.stutimandal.com/new/poemgen.php?id=33

Hi Bergamot,

Tuesday September 18 2007, Bergamot writes to Gufus:

> From:
> The generic sans-serif wins by a landslide. Or the generic
> serif if that style goes better with the overall design.

> Or here's a novel idea: leave the family out altogether and
> let your visitors decide for themselves what font to use.

Thanks for your input Berg.

Cheers from Calgary.

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Animesh K wrote:

>> Link this for a proof:

Thanks for those, but I think I would like to keep the focus of the page
on the font size issue. The only reason I listed font families there was
to show the absence of Verdana.

'Tis interesting, though. I'd never noticed, being an English-only
writer.

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

In article <fcplmp$1dub$>,
Animesh K <> wrote:

> http://stutimandal.blogspot.com/2007...akastakam.html
>
> This page shows fine in FF or Opera. Safari/IE7.0 put slightly bigger
> replacement characters. And IE 6.0 just fails.
>
> I guess Trebuchet MS lacks the diacritics fonts. (though it is just a
> dot above/below the regularly ASCII alphabets).
>
> Best,

In my Safari 2 and FF (Mac):

"posted by Stutiman?d?ala @ 12:17 PM"

except that the ? is a small bordered unfilled square.

Mostly fine though. Mac IE (perhaps not too surprisingly) is not
up to the job at all.

--
dorayme

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
>> Honestly, Gufus, better let him sleep, because if he wakes
>> prematurely, I am getting out of here, sparks are a goin' to
>> fly...
>
> <lol> You expounded on just about everything - except the
> purple background.
>
> For some reason, Gufus' posts do not arrive in my newsreader.
> Yours come in as a direct reply to mine. Doesn't seem to be
> anything in my killfile that would affect his posts (which I
> found at GG).

Using a WeirdSoftware filter?

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with a Soup mail client (which is included).
SoupGate supports both Binkley and ArcMail style outbounds."

Development seems to have pretty much stopped at the beta state in
2000.

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