-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 03:09, jokerman64 wrote: > >>OK, so here i am after p-chem lab and i open my mail and get the new "updated >>mandrake club" website mail. So i go and check it out, kinda excited to see >>if it's "worthy of me" now so that i can join and I see that it's still the >>same crappy site. lemme explain: >>1. The fonts suck! >>2. The fonts are sh*te >>3. The fonts on all the mandrake site suck @$$. >>Yes, that is my one and only complaint. You see i don't care so much how >>things work if i'm not going to use them a lot as much as I care about how >>they look. > > > Agree 100%, assuming this means the site still has Helvetica set as its > preferred font. We've spent years in the distro fixing the reliance on > this ass-ugly piece of bitmap crap, so why does the website of the damn > distro want to use it?! Since we now have such lovely fonts in Mandrake, > the website should have the default font set as "sans", so it actually > looks half acceptable. Sites that default to Helvetica bug me so much > I've actually wiped the font from my system (I tried setting up that > thing you can do in fonts.conf that make it use Vera in place of > Helvetica, but I could never make it work), so now the MDK page looks > okay to me, but this is a hack I should NOT have to use.
AFAIK, MandrakeClub now uses CSS for all style settings, and according to Denis, doesn't set any fonts (though I will check later), however, http://www.linux-mandrake.com is full of this junk: <font size=2 face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><b>September 9th, 2003 - Mandrake 9.2RC2</b> - The second release-candidate of Mandrake Linux 9.2 is available for download and tests. Release informations and places to download are available <a href="92beta.php3">here</a>. Luckily I override some fonts ... Please, can someone ensure this is addressed. Helvetica is not a decent replacement for Arial or sans-serif, and should be listed last, not first. Ha! I just looked at the CSS on http://www.mandrakeclub.com, and see this: BODY { color: #000000; background: #ffffff; padding: 5px; margin: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } * { font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } The same issue applies here, you should use instead: font-family: arial, sans-serif, helvetica; Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Xv5jrJK6UGDSBKcRAlSYAJ0Yqh6/rOEc7ghI8SjrtjVwgs5E8wCfbwyX s3UdmXwsOzR5/Q5OpDkPFXs= =Uzbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
