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Re: html3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Fri Sep 1 13:26:21 1995
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <Elliotte@blackstar.com>
To: James C Deikun <jcdst10+@pitt.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:20:35 EST
Reply-To: Elliotte@blackstar.com
Cc: Jason Weiler <weilerj@std.teradyne.com>, java-interest@java.sun.com
>
> Does that include backgrounds and <FONT> and the like? I don't find
> most of that very pleasant.
Then turn it off. It is (or should be) a user preference whether or
not to respect the author's suggestions about which fonts and
backgrounds to use. If you can't turn it off, then the browser is
broken, not the extensions.
At least in Netscape it is possible to turn off fancy background
colors and images. I don't have Internet Explorer yet.
One thing people continue to misunderstand or ignore about the web is
that the user DOES and SHOULD control the display, the efforts of
dinosaur paper-based companies like Adobe not withstanding. Maybe I
have small black and white monitor and like to read my text in
nine-point Monaco. Then I should be allowed to. Or maybe I have bad
vision and need the text to be in 30 point Helvetica Bold to be able
to read it. Then I can choose that too. On the other hand maybe I
have a great monitor and perfect vision and can use the fonts the
author suggests. It's my choice to do so. However no font choice
should be(or is) forced on me.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold Black Star Publishing Co., Inc.
elliotte@blackstar.com 116 East 27th Street
elharo@escape.com NY NY 10016
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