RE: [MLUG] Mozilla 1.0.0

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> It's all adjustable in your browser settings. It shouldn't be 
> a problem
> except in cases where web designers try to do something like 
> make letters
> extreme small. Happily Mozilla lets you resize fonts at any 
> time. I still
> think the FONT tag should burn in hell though.. despite my 
> own occassional
> use of it ;)

The font tag is supposed to be depricated in the near future, though I doubt
anyone will actually stop supporting it.  I still think the web designer
should be able to specify fonts, but they should be reasonable.  For
example, if you specify your page is in 'comic-sans', with headers in
'star-trek-font8', then you're not being reasonable, but if you specify
"arial,helvetica,sans-serif" or some other reasonable combination which uses
a series of common fonts which includes at least something for everybody.
Using microscopic (below 8pt) font is also unreasonable, which is why many
document editors only go down to 8 in their drop-down lists.

Beyond these utterly simple requirements, I don't see that use of font tags
or stylesheets is a problem.

Now, back to my problem.  Save this to a .txt file, view it in mozilla or
netscape.  On my NT box, it shows up in 10pt courier.  On my linux box, it
shows up at about 6pt with a fuzzy looking font resembling that used in the
terminal windows (which is about 14pt on my linux box).

In windows, I can change the settings on netscape to show fonts at
everything from 20% to 1800%.  In linux, this option is not available
(greyed out), and changing the font settings doesn't actually change the
font.  This holds true for Mozilla as well.
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