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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Fontsize on www-pages
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 00:41:57 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <171.6661T758T2798@dalnet.se> ludde@dalnet.se (Mikael Ludwigsson) writes:
- > Is there any standard fontsizes on a www-page ( the HTML-code H1-H6)?
- > If I write my own page I will have an idea how it gonna look for my "readers".
-
- No, there is no standard font point size.
- Remember, people can view your page with such browsers as Lynx, Arena,
- MacMosaic, MS Internet Explorer, or AWeb. The first uses one point size only,
- and the style is dictated by the terminal, not the browser. Arena uses fonts
- available through X11, MacMosaic uses the Mac's fonts, MS Internet Explorer
- uses Windows fonts, and AWeb uses Amiga fonts.
- Also remember that your pages may not "look" like anything at all. I have
- an article from the Reuters news service (grabbed from Yahoo!) which makes the
- case for device-independent HTML very well. (I can't post it for copyright
- reasons.) Consider the blind Web users. Browsers aren't very smart, and they
- can only read HTML based on the document structure. That means blind users
- are shut out of many Web pages, because the author virtually ignored structure
- while going for good looks, meaning the reader just spits out a jumbled mess
- of words that make no sense.
- The moral of the story: Markup your pages based on the structure of the
- information you are presenting, with only secondary considerations given to
- the look of the pages. A well-organized, logically presented Web page is too
- much to ask these days, but I digress. A well-organized, logically presented
- Web page is much more impressive to the reader than one designed for eye-candy
- value. And besides, you really don't have control over how your pages look.
-
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
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