- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:50:02 -0500
- To: Iain Wilkie Logan <iainlogan@enterprise.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Iain Wilkie Logan felt an urge to reveal at 4:12 PM -0500 on 1997-09-17: > > Besides, Netscape offered the use of various fonts, so > > that they could be cross-platform (I always used about three or four > > different varieties, just to be safe). > > The only concern I would have is where the use of FACE would render the > affected text meaningless on platforms where the font is not available - > certain symbol fonts might come into that category for example. This is only a problem if you depend on the FONT attribute for informational rather than presentational purposes, much like using images of text rather than text itself. -------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] [ "Don't you realize that intellectual people ] [ are all ignorant because they can't spray ] [ paint that small?" ] --------------------------------------------------------
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