On 6/15/2014 4:29 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
Desiree pounded out :
On 6/15/2014 4:47 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 6/15/2014 6:33 AM, Tom S. wrote:
On many websites, why is it whenever I turn off the font setting,
"Allow documents to use other fonts" (or just "Fonts" in
PrefBar), the buttons on the web page are replaced with little
rectangular placeholders? For example, this site:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
It wasn't that way in times past.
Thanks in advance.
They are NOT buttons. They are made-up font characters (glyphs). For
lazy Web developers, it is easier to create a glyph than a button. When
you block downloaded fonts, you block such glyphs.
I was wondering what those were myself...not at the site mentioned
(which displays so horrible on a 24" wide screen monitor that I will
never go there again --- are all young people having eyesight problems
as the font is gigantic there)?
I have recently been seeing those place holders at a number of sites and
I see this on every browser. I NEVER allow websites to use their own
fonts ....never have and never will.
Why? Please detail why this is a bad thing to do.
Because once you start using Verdana there is no going back. It's
superior to all other fonts for readability. I've been using it
exclusively for many years.
Also, I had to install WindowBlinds on this Windows 8.0 Pro computer
right after I got it since Microsoft refuses to let the user choose the
Windows font. They created a new font for Windows 8 which is forced on
everyone and it is hard to read. Plus, black font on Windows 8 is
actually gray and very difficult to read and tiring to the eyes. I
noticed that immediately when I got this computer. Later, I got a new
24" wide screen Dell Ultrasharp monitor. It sits next to my old Dell
Ultrasharp LCD 19" 5:4 ratio monitor that I have had over ten years and
is connected to an XP Pro computer. I can open the same website on both
computers and see black font on the XP computer and gray font on the
Windows 8 computer. Both monitors are Dell ultrasharps and both have
higher end nVidia cards. I also connected the older Dell monitor to the
Windows 8 computer and saw gray instead of black font on it too.
It was obvious this was yet another Windows 8 problem. I found several
very long threads at Microsoft help forum where I learned this was
partly deliberate on Microsoft's part because they killed cleartype on
Windows 8 (it is still there but doesn't work). To not make this too
long, I had to use WindowBlinds to let me choose Verdana as my Windows
font and then I imported a separate copy of Verdana Bold font and I made
it my Windows font and my font for all my browsers (except Opera 12.17
and I couldn't ask for Opera help as that version is not supported) and
usually on Thunderbird. That gave me black font finally. Since Opera
says it is using Verdana Bold but isn't, when I use Opera I am really
struck by how extremely bad fonts are on Windows 8 for desktop users.
Microsoft said they took away cleartype on Windows 8 because it won't
work on tablets. Fine. But I have a powerful desktop so why remove
cleartype from Desktop? I don't use Metro side at all.
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