Hi Ted:

Sorry if I offended you in anyway, not my intention at all. I do 
respect your viewpoint on this list and I appreciated the advice and 
the information you provide. 

I myself, am a majority user of Microsoft products, and I find that 
the more MS provided services and items I need to employ only 
leads me further into their world. I look at all the software I have on 
my shelf from Microsoft, and the price I have paid over the past 
several years, and I think that maybe they should offer some free-
bees. <just my opinion, not provided to start a MS bash session>

I admit I was in error to have made this type of comment on this 
list. I appologize to all offended.

Thank you for the information you graciously supplied me.



On 23 May 2000, at 9:19, Ted Temer wrote:

> Jim:
> 
> >(oxymoron: free from
> > Micro$oft)
> 
> I'm kind of surprised by your comments about Microsoft. I realize that there
> seems to be a few on this list that just love to snide all over poor Bill
> and his boys but I assure you, there is no other software company and I mean
> NO OTHER company that gives away as much free stuff as Microsoft.
> 
> They have literally "thousands" of pages with free downloads of applets,
> actual programs, upgrades and goodies and toys to play with. This is
> addition to the dozen or so free trial versions of their regular products.
> It would take weeks just to check them all out.
> 
> In answer to your question about embedding fonts, there most certainly is
> such a program. I am personally unsure if the fuss and bother of such a
> concept is worth it, just to allow the choice of a font. However there are
> "hundreds" of pages on this general topic at:
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft/default.htm
> 
> I find myself rather ambivalent over WEFT myself. But--Check out their site
> and read all the articles. You will have to decide. The bottom line is that
> it works--but it is far from simple even though MS provides a semi-WYSIWYG
> applet to use. And yes--as far as I recall--it's all free for the using.
> 
> Best wishes
> Ted Temer
> Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
> temer(at)c-zone.net
> www.temercraft.com/
> www.newsredding.com/
> 
> 
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have heard from a source that MS has a free (oxymoron: free from
> > Micro$oft) add-on that lets you embed code into the HTML that
> > downloads a particular font of your choice. This would allow you to
> > use any font, regardless of its availability on the viewers system. It
> > also doesn't remain on the viewers machine once the web page or
> > browser is closed.
> >
> > Has anyone used or even heard of this code, or is this one of those
> > "pie-in-the-sky" wishful things that circulate? If it's real, where
> > would one find this animal, and is this another IE only thing or did
> > MS actually make something that works with other software?
> >
> > Just curious!
> >
> >
> > Jim Haslam
> > __________________________
> >
> 
> 


Jim Haslam
__________________________

HTML: hwg-basics mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA