[REBOL] Re: LIBRARY: First public release ready for viewing
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 2-Mar-2003 7:56
Hi, Sunanda,
Thus far I've checked the site in the following browsers:
platform browser results
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w2k Netscape 4.8 source unreadable
w2k Mozilla 1.2 source readable but poor font
w2k IE 6.0.. source readable but ugly font ;-)
OS/X 10.2.3 OmniWeb 4.1.1 looks good!
OS/X/10.2.3 Safari 1.0.51 looks good!
OS/X/10.2.3 IE 5.2 looks nice (sizes a little odd)
My Linux boxes were stolen in the burglary, so I haven't been
able to test on that platform, and I'm not at work today so I
haven't been able to test Unix browsers yet.
There's more than an IE problem; the script views are completely
unusable in e.g. Netscape 4.8 (which some of us still have to use
per company standards, etc.) The source of the script itself is
rendered in an ENORMOUS chunky font, positioned somewhere off of
the left side of the page, so that all I can see of it (with my
window at normal size, monitor set for 1280x1024 pixels) is
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After looking at the style sheet, it appears that the style for
pre
tags calls for fonts in the following order:
fixedsys, "courier new", sans-serif
May I sincerely request that this be changed, for the following
reasons (in order of priority):
- fixedsys and courier are monospaced fonts (common for code
listings), which means I'd expect the generic to be
monospace instead of sans-serif. This means that, even if
I set my browser to use my font preferences instead of the
ones in the individual page, I can't see the listings in a
monospace font on some browsers (at least not without
making other stuff monospaced).
- Some of us who work in a multi-platform world like to set
up our various browsers so that the generics are mapped
similarly across different systems/platforms. Putting a
Windows-specific font at the front of the list defeats
that desire completely.
- There are other common monospace fonts widely used in
publication for code listings (e.g. Lucida Console) that
would work well here.
- I personally would vote for generics only, as the individual
visitor can see things in the fonts (s)he prefers across
sites.
[SunandaDH--aol--com] wrote: