At 09:43 21/10/98 -0400, Urb wrote:
>> Thanks, Brent. That *exactly* what I need to know. It doesn't break
>> anywhere like that on my screen.
>
> Like Brent, centered text is a peeve of mine. I think the trap for
>designers it they know what the text says and don't actually read it.
>All text in print media is left justified. Anything else is for special
>effects.
>
>> better suggestions? I'm certainly open to them, and I thank you for
>> taking the time to tell me about these things.
If you want the text centred, why not just put it in a fixed-width table
with align="left" attribute and then centre the table? That way you can set
the width of each line and still keep the readability.
Even so, the text will be differently rendered, depending on the default
font face and size spec'd in a person's browser. And by the different ways
different OSs render text. And even by the difference in the way video
cards display text. For instance, the Matrox Millenium card in my home
workstation renders text differently from the video card in my work
ThinkPad (through a same-size monitor) and differently again from the S3
Trident card in my other desktop. Even though the browsers are set up with
the same defaults.
>
> Unless I knew exactly what to expect, I wouldn't take the time to
>download a file, open it in Word (not to mention security risk), and
>read it. I would suggest an HTML formatted paragraph with a link to the
>Word document. If Eric doesn't grab them in the first paragraph, he's
>not going to grab them.
Agreed. Although I do still have MS Word my prefered word processor these
days is Lotus WordPro 97. Mainly, I guess, because I have to use it at work
so I tend to use it all the time. And WordPro won't open .doc files. Why
not provide people with a choice of either plain text of Acrobat .pdf files?
regards,
franko
_________Frank Lee, Interactive Strategist, Writer & Developer_________
Interactive Strategist, IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired World
Consulting.
http://www.wiredworld.com.au
'Always live your life with one more dream, because when you stop dreaming,
life becomes mundane.' -- Sara Henderson
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