Re: help me please! (its off the topic but i didn't know where else to
by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
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Comharsa <comharsa(at)clara.net> |
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At 19:42 23/01/00 +0000, Comharsa wrote:
>Yes, I have considered this and decided that if I think a site looks best in
>a particular font/style/colour/whatever this is how it should look. After
>all, who is designing a site? Publishers don't offer books in a range of
>fonts so that you can choose the one you prefer to read.
Umm - actually they DO!!! There are a number of books republished with
LARGE FONTS for the visually impaired.
Even the CSS specifications allow for users to over-ride a page's fonts
with their own preferences. For accessibility reasons the User preference
always overrides that of the designer.
Of course, using Lynx ALWAYS overrides font preferences :-)
Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
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