Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 08:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote: To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent big money on high quality but

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 08:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote: To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent big money on high quality but

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread David Dorward
Paul Novitski wrote: I submit that installing a font on one's computer establishes a concrete desire to view text styled in that font to be displayed in that font. More usually, it establishes that the system administrator for that computer installed a piece of software that came with the

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Oh, it doesn't stop with fonts! Some website producers are arrogant enough to force text and images on the visitor instead of allowing them to enjoy the default text and images they have written for their own browser. It's shocking; simply shocking. If people actually wanted to read the text,

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2009-06-23 Thread Smith, Warwick
Hi, I am currently out of the office. I will return to the office on Thursday 25 June. If your request is of urgent nature please email webreque...@dbcde.gov.au or call Melynda Taylor on 6271 1334. Thanks, Warwick Smith Intranet Manager

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-06-23 Thread phil . houghton
Thank you for your email. I am out of the office until the 29th. I will be checking my email intermittently until then. If you have an urgent support query, please send an SMS to the support number you have been given and I'll respond as soon as possible. Best regards, Phil Houghton Managing

[WSG] internet explorer 8 problems

2009-06-23 Thread Marvin Hunkin
hi. will post the message below. think my problems on the student web project i did. and when i removed the ../ with just for example a href=styles/Joes_Style.css. just reverts back to times new roman. so wondering if this is a internet explorer problem for version 8. so wondering to uninstall it

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread James Ellis
To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's choice of fonts, Yes, that's the point of typography and meeting the requirements of a client specification. Provided it's readable I don't see

RE: [WSG] internet explorer 8 problems

2009-06-23 Thread michael.brockington
Marvin, Have you been able to confirm whether this is actually a problem with the display of your page, or a problem with the way that Jaws is interacting with IE ? It might be that the font _is_ Times, but Jaws is mis-leading you. Not too sure what else you would be able to 'see', but have you

RE: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-23 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Paul Novitski declared: plain text HTML cannot force fonts on us that we do not choose to see. Hmm... wonder if that explains why WEFT and BITS never quite caught on... ;~) -- The generation that took acid to escape reality is now taking antacid to deal with reality

[WSG] Lisa Kerrigan/StateDevPolicy/DSD is out of the office.

2009-06-23 Thread lisa . kerrigan
I will be out of the office starting 24/06/2009 and will not return until 26/06/2009. For Content Requests contact Jason Rhodes. * Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development,Government of

[WSG] DoNanza

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