Roger F. Gay wrote:
<snip>> I tried SVG to fashion the big buttons on the first page, > but there was too much variation in fonts in different > browsers. After trying to fix that for a while, I gave up > and went with fixed images instead; even though I am now > using a google font for the home page. <snip> > The site is: http://mopedum.se/ Hey Truphone, One of the many things I like about using actual text in SVG images is that it can be translated without human intervention. It may look funny, but if you're used to viewing translations of foreign language sites you are accustomed to the occasional bit of oddness. I like to have things just the way I want them when I do web development and have for a long time; however, the down side to that is that the viewer might not be able to have things the way they *need* them. For example, I am more than thirty years older than I was when I started as a web developer. In those 30+ years many things have changed, and I don't just mean in the technology or implementation of various aspects of web development, but also in myself. Not just the way I think and feel, but also some of my capabilities. In the old days you could always resize the text so you could read it; however, sometimes today I run across websites where the text is in 6.5 and there is nothing I can do to make it larger short of copying and pasting it into another application. Unless I really need the information and that site is the only place I can get what I need, I am unlikely to continue using it because there are better designed sites elsewhere with the same or similar information. I mention all of this only to remind you that if the differences are not too great for you to live with, perhaps a little flexibility for the sake of the viewer would be a good thing. I used to have customers who insisted on having things exactly the way they wanted them even when I would try to explain why something not quite exactly what they wanted would be better. Some of them got it and others didn't. None of the ones who didn't still have active websites or made much on the sites they had, even during the dot com boom. Jeeze, I sound like one of those old coots going on about the good old days. OTOH, I learned a lot by listening to old coots. :-D ============================================================ I must be travelling, Jason tc+ ?23 ?mgt mt tne ?t20 t4++ ?t5 ?tp tg+ ?th ?to ru- ge++ 3i c++ jt- au+ ls pi+ ta+ he+ kk++ hi+ as+ va+ dr ?ith vr ne so+ zh vi da sy ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
