RE: The pointless thread continues

From: Alan Wood (alan.wood@context.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 10:41:33 EDT


Michael Everson wrote:

> At 15:04 +0200 2002-07-05, Michael Jansson wrote:
>
> >Your average Internet user may not have a suitable font, may not
> >know how to install a font, may not be allowed to installed a font (e.g.
> >would have to ask their helpdesk at work), nor would not know
>where to find font.

> Then your average Internet user should bloody well learn how to use a
> computer.
>
I couldn't agree more. And I wonder how many people want to be
able to read Web pages in a particular language but don't also
want to write e-mails and word processor documents in that
language. Web fonts are not a lot of use when you want to
produce documents.

Alan Wood
Documentation Writer / Web Master
Context Limited (http://www.context.co.uk)
mailto:alan.wood@context.co.uk
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)



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