[Dropping [EMAIL PROTECTED] since it rejects non-member postings] On Tuesday 31 May 2005 02:57 am, Sajed Chowdhury wrote: > Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > Suzan wrote: > > > [...] > > > 3. If user will not use bengali unicode font, then how > > > website developer will display their bengali website to > > > the user? Does he use embedded font or anything? > > > > They could, but that comes with its own set of disadvantages (with no > > advantages, from my point of view as a Linux user). > > But is it not desirable to provide graceful degradation for > non-Unicode enabled browsers? What's the disadvantage with that? > (other than a little bit extra effort)
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you asking about existing Bengali websites that use embedded fonts, or new ones that are trying to decide which technology to use? What extra effort are you talking about? As far as I know, the only browser and Operating system combination that supports embedded fonts is IE on Windows (Bitstream, the technology used by Anandabazar, is also supported, for instance, with Netscape 4.x on Solaris, but that's hardly a combination worth serious consideration). IE on Windows is not a 'non-Unicode enabled browser', so I don't see your point. Any other (realistic) browser/OS combination is 'non-embedded font enabled', so whether or not they are 'non-Unicode enabled' is irrelevant. Deepayan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
