- From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 14:21:24 +0100 (BST)
- To: mudws@mail.olemiss.edu (Warren Steel)
- Cc: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com, www-html@w3.org
Warren Steel wrote: > > Scott, I don't see how you can have it both ways. If <FONT> is > a useful stopgap, till Stylesheets are deployed, then it must "work" > properly *now*, in current browsers. I've already demonstrated that > it doesn't. Current browsers do not allow users to disable font sizes, > which blows off the sight-impaired and those with small displays. > Current browsers do not allow users to disable font colors, which > blows off the colorblind and those who happen to have set their own > background colors. I put in an option in my browser to "Disable Netscape extensions", which does stop all those font colour and size changes. I find using Netscape that the small (ie. size=1 or size=2) fonts are unreadable in the default UNIX/X configuration, whilst they remain perfectly readable on mine thanks to the (OS-provided) font anti-aliasing. :-/ -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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