Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:07 pm তারিখে, Sajed Chowdhury লিখেছিলেন: > Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > 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? > > I'm talking about new ones and also existing ones that would like to > migrate to unicode. The extra effort would be having (some backend > script generate) the same content in 3 forms depending on the > capability of the browser (in order of preference): > 1. unicode > 2. font embedding using eot/pfr > 3. text as gifs/pngs
For those that currently do 2 (and/or 3), they have to decide whether they want to support 1. > The only problem is that automatic detection of browser capabilities > can be error prone, so for instance, users would have to click on a > link like "Click here for a graphic version of this page" or somesuch > to get option #3. > > > IE on Windows > > is not a 'non-Unicode enabled browser' > > What about IE on Windows98? Unfortunately a lot of people (e.g., > Bangladeshi cybercafes) are still using that combination. I don't know how to react to that. Supporting obsolete systems is a perennial dilemma, since that decreases the incentive to upgrade, which is not a good thing. If it were up to me, I would probably ignore these users completely, and hope that some of them would ditch these (invariably illegal) installations and start using GNU/Linux instead. However, that's obviously not a pragmatic/acceptable solution (even though cyber cafe-s are probably the ideal test-beds for GNU/Linux deployment). 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
