Hi Ali Martin,
On Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 1999 at 23:39:55 you wrote:
AM> I'm particularly against the concept of denying features because
AM> ignorant users may abuse them, or excessively facilitating the user
AM> the the point where the very facilitants become a hindrance to others.
AM> This is pretty much the MS way that we speak so much against.
That's not true, IMHO. MS works by telling people what they are
supposed to want, alright. But at the same time they manage to give
people too many options so that no normal dumb user can work with
their software. They lead people in the direction that's best for
Microsoft instead of the one that's best for them and everyone else.
I'm against the concept of denying features, too. But a feature is
only a feature in the right place. To say it the hard way: You don't
need variable width fonts to work with a system that has been
functioning with fixed width fonts for what? 20 years? or such.
AM> If variable width font support would be useful for many, implement the
AM> thing. Just make sure that fixed width font support is maintained.
That's what I'm saying all the time. I think especially of the people
using charsets (some mentioned that) that don't work properly in fixed
width. But I still think it's not generally a good idea.
Oliver Sturm
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