At 2:31 AM -0500 5/7/98, S. P. Carr wrote:
>On 6 May 98 at 22:31, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>
>> Well -- the fact is that MS has the best "hot air" machine in the industry.
>
>Frankly, from my perspective the most adamant and vociferous promoters in the
>industry are the mac evangelists. Maybe it's the underdog mentality, but I'm
>worn out with the assumption that every mailing list, every discussion
>group, and every other forum is an appropriate place for "Apple did it first
>or better or cooler" and "MS is slime" postings.
>
>Please - tell me about web development and mangement tools that work well on
>the Mac, on *nix, on Wintel. Tell me about how you solved cross-platform
>display issues, font choices, color rendering. Whatever.
Well, as I pointed out earlier tonite -- I'm working with Cold Fusion
Application Server, which runs native on NT and Solaris. The development
environment is NT, Solarias -- but applications can be "developed" in CF
Studio on a Mac running Win95. I think it's a pretty darn good tool.
I'm contributing to the general education of "new" designers by having them
at least look at web sites on different browsers with different default
settings (vo tech college environment). But I'm stuck in Win95 mode because
that's the only computers that the lab has. At least I'm creating awareness.
Font choices?
face="arial,helvetica"
face="times, times new roman"
This gets unix/wintel/mac
Color rendering -- 216 browser safe color works for wintel/mac but doesn't
for Unix because it has a different (more adaptive?) palette. Browser safe
UNIX color seems to be a nonsequiter, at least on HP-UNIX machines that I'm
working with.
Just in case your comment was literal and not rhetorical.
Kathy
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