Re: fonts

You're both right, depending upon the audience.  My Win98 PII 400 with IE5
and a cable connection can download a 200Kb web page in 5 seconds.  My
laptop, using a 56k...well...

My Linux box, with NN, doesn't catch all the goodies from the fancy add-ons,
and since I am usually just looking for content with that machine, I'm not
interested.  But, I am also not a normal customer...:).

US customers, especially, are used to TV...and TV means visual effects.  The
best approach is probably the most often repeated one: code for your
customers.  As coders, we need to understand the code...but don't turn a
deaf ear to the salespeople, who may understand the market...

WAP means text, TV means visual glitz, and the Web will cater to *both*
extremes, and to VR applications we can barely imagine today...:).

D

----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Jean Pedersen <rjp(at)mail.tele.dk>

I've been doing a lot of research in the past few days about fonts and
various browsers and systems and I've come up with the conclusion that
there are very few consistencies.  So I am left with the question of "Is
it worth it?"  Is it worth it to get into CSSs and setting fonts when my
choices are down to about 3  (if I remember correctly, Times, Arial, and
Helvetica) that really work everywhere.  I want pages to be consistent
and I'm very anti "optimized for ..." or "best viewed in ...".  My
husband tells me I won't get any customers for my webpages if I don't
starting doing all this other stuff but it just clashes with what I
believe in if I make pages that don't work everywhere.  (Personally I
prefer a linux system with netscape.  Right now he has mostly windows
with IE)  So what is the general consensus out there?  Are CSSs
essential to a decent marketable page?  Do I have to make pages that are
slower than a snail to have any customers?

I hand code everything in emacs.  We're getting into PHP and I already
use javascript.  I stay away from things requiring plugins because
theyre usually slow.  I go for attractive and fast with the theory that
all the fancy stuff in the world won't do any good if no one stays
around long enough to read it.  Am I out of my mind?

All comments appreciated.  (including ones like my husband's that says a
7th grader could make pages like mine.  of course his would probably be
horrendously slow from editor-created junk stuck in there.....)
Thanks!
Rebecca

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