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Re: WWW/Mosaic widget

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raffaele Sena)
Sun Oct 2 00:15:03 1994

Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 05:13:10 +0100
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From: raffs@netcom.com (Raffaele Sena)
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> 
> In response to the objections raised that ...
> a. not all monitors are the same size
> b. not all monitors have the same resolution
> c. not all computers have the same fonts.
> 
	Why don't send out the more important info related to the font
	(family, weight, point size, style, etc.) and the screen/window
	dimension. It should be quite easy for a client to find the closest
	font to use to display a document and obtain a page that reasonably
	looks like the original.

Ciao,
	Raffaele

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