On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:34:13PM -0600, Matt Housh wrote:
> > There are some versions of X that do not allow you to install TT fonts.
[...]
> They can easily request that the system administrator do it for them.
Sorry, but they can not. Especially not in a corporate environment. What
do you think will SysAdmins (who usually have a slate full of wark
anyway) say if they get users all the time wnating to have this and that
installed, just because the author some webpage - which happened to contain
interesting material (interisting for the job) - failed to design it
properly and in a considerate way?
[...]
> I never said I expect everyone to download the font. I said I want my
> page to appear with the Verdana font, and I don't care much about the
> others. Please leave words like CORRECT out of this, as again they are
> your opinions.
If you're writing a page just for yourself with content that is of no
interest for anybody but yourself and probably is even only accessible
by yourself, then yes, you can pretty much do what you please with it.
If, however, you write a page to make information accessible for others,
then there *is* a "correct" way of doing things which has nothing to do
with personal opinion. The correct way is to adhere to standards (W3C
HTML 4.0 for example) and to take into consideration that HTML is not a
WYSIWYG media and that there are people out there who will use all sorts
of machines and browsers. Failing to consider this in my opinion (and
that *is* an opinion) only shows that the author of such a page has not
understood the idea behind the WWW.
[...]
Regards,
Thomas
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