On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Chen Shapira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added Lior Kaplan's news updates in hebrew as a rightbox to our site.
> I believe it says something, although I can't read it.
> If you have any suggestions, let me know.
Works fine for me, but not for others.
1. It seems to require javascript. Is there any way of avoiding that? I
don't think that it is the browser's job to do the scripting.
2. The use of Font Face is problematic.
Even through face="ariel,helvetica" is supposed to give you sans-serif
font everywhere, it aparantly doesn't . Even not with IE5 on Chen's box.
But a more serious problem is that by forcing the viewer to use arial or
helvetica, you don't let him use custom fonts.
On X people often use non-standard fonts for hebrew. Without the turkish
patch one would need to use a special font with netscape 4, for instance.
And with hebrew windows, you don't allow people to use custom fonts (that
are needed to get netscape and opera to show visual hebrew properly).
Thus you hurt a large portion of your target audince (if you aim for IE
alone then you can use logical hebrew and save yourself some troubles).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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