Digital Wokan wrote:
 
> Felix Miata wrote:

>  > Why must dee-zine-ers assume that their choices are better than users'?
>  > By allowing the users' choice instead of overriding, new users of
>  > Mandrake can see what the Mandrake defaults look like. ;-)

> Because good dee-zine-ers have read studies on what makes for eye
> catching displays.

Well whoop-de-doo!

> While the Mandrake sites' purposes are primarily to
> disseminate information,

Appears so.

> though as the first impression of Mandrake a
> non-Linux user gets, it would only benefit Mandrake's cause to have an
> appealing site.

And how is being eye-appealing contradictory to being useful? The
question remains how can the dee-zine-ers know that the visitor even has
the dictated font installed, much less that the visitor would rather see
some font other than the one he preferred and selected for his own
default?
-- 
"...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry...."
                                                James 1:19 NIV

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