Re: IGLU Web site - Ideas

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The font settings aren't need. But the JS is.   Since there isn't PHP available, we must tell the browser to go to my site and read the news file. The only way of doing that on the client side is JS.   In PHP You can use the include() function. I guess you can do something like that with Perl, but that is beyond my knowledge. If someone can do it - be my guest. The file without the JS is: http://www.guides.co.il/news/linuxheadlines.txt   If any special needs come up, let me know.   Another way: I'll write the news file on IGLU's site using PHP... and than the file will be loaded locally as simple text. I'm not 100% this will work, but it might worth a try. Regards,   Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il ----- Original Message ----- From: Tzafrir Cohen To: Chen Shapira Cc: 'Guides.co.il Webmaster' ; IGLU webmasters Sent: ��� ���� 06 ����� 2001 00:03 Subject: RE: IGLU Web site - Ideas 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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir