Re: GNOME comp

[Dennis Lee <dennisle swbell net>]

Tuomo Lukka wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Fred Oliveira (aka kript0n) wrote:
>
>
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dennis Lee wrote:
> >
> >
> > > _Please_ do not spec some tiny size font (like 8 point)!
> > > Fonts to small to read are one of the first complaints I hear about 
> > > surfing with Linux.
> >
> > As a matter of fact, 8 pt is not small (i have designed a page's CSS
> > (check http://geek.box.sk) with 8pt and it fits both *nix browsers (read
> > netscape) and windows browsers (read netscape [again] and ie).
>
>
> Are you trying to say that "http://geek.box.sk/"; is not using small font ??
> I have RedHat 6.1 + Netscape 4.7x running on 1024 * 768 display, and this
> is how I see your web-page: http://titanic.tky.hut.fi/images/font_shot.jpg
>
> Please, take a look and remenber that even though it is possible that my
> system is "corrupt", I am using all settings a they were left after
> installing the whole thingie and probably there are also others who see
> this page like me.. So, please don't use small fonts, they are impossible
> to read some of us.
> 			Tuomo Lukka
>
> PS: If someone can tell why the hell my browser shows the page like that,
>     please tell me!

There is nothing wrong with your system. Thats just the best Netscape 
4.7 can display such a small font; at that display resultion; mine looks 
the same and I have true type fonts installed. There are some things you 
could to do in order to read the page, but why, it is the web site thats 
broken in my book.

This is the kind of thing we can avoid by not setting a font size.

Dennis