Re: Netscape looks like crud

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:07:44PM -0500, Nitebirdz wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Danny wrote:
> 
> > - Hello
> > 
> > Yes the fonts are a bit small on sites such as www.av.com
> > 
> > But you can easily change the font setting by selecting edit ->
> > prefences-> Appearance -> fonts
> > 
> > Then simply change the font sizes
> > 
> Not really.  That doesn't fix the problem in many sites, aside from
> the fact that it ends up screwing up the general layout of many
> pages.  The whole thing boils down to how Linux and UNIX handle
> fonts, and there is a good chance that the problem will not go away
> until TrueType fonts are handled natively which XFree86 4.0 is
> supposed to do, although I didn't try it yet.

XFree 4.0 is using the same font engine as RH6.x xfs. TrueType works
fairly well with xfs, and makes a big difference with _most_ websites.
And, I don't think it is a *nix problem as much as a webdesign problem
where font families are specified that have no native *nix
equivalents.

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Hal B
hburgiss bellsouth net
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