> I'm not sure about Word but I've seen other programs > do it. I think maybe Mozilla and/or MSIE. > But I'm a bit hesitant to do it this way because it's > so intensive - you have to load and render up every > font in the system. That makes lots of processor and > disk work. But I'm not against it either really...
Jody Goldberg of Gnumeric fame and I are wholly against this misfeature. Solutions along the lines of what Marc just did are vastly superior from both a usability standpoint and a resource standpoint. IIRC, we agreed that it would be useful to display the *currently used font's name* displayed using that font face. This would be a useful visual cue and should go into the UI. Having each font's name displayed in that respective font in the dropdown list is an abuse of processor resources and not necessarily helpful to the user, or at least could be done better via an alternate means like Marc did. Dom
