Response to comments

[Jeff Bobicki]

Hi Bob

Other than not making it clear that you are co-author of Librowse ...that
is an excellent post.

There is one item I would like to elaborate on that you address ...

The font issue is probably why they want style sheets to begin with. Let's
assume for a moment styles are NOT implemented. One of the issues I
presented at the Library web page design workshop is the idea of "relative
font sizes".

I have an example of a patron with bad eyesight that has large fonts @
640X480 resolution, another with a great eyesight uses 600X800 and small
fonts.

"forcing a font size" is bad business. Use only relative fonts. For example:

<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-3" COLOR="Black">
sets the font to a size "relative" to the normal where:

<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="3" COLOR="Black">
would force a size 3 font to the browser which would probably make it
unacceptable to both.

Cheerio !! Jeff    

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Fonts -- Try and stick with browser standard fonts.  If the reader doesn't
have the specific font on their system, it won't display properly.  HTML is
a markup language and not a Page Description Language like Postscript,
Interpress, etc.  The user may define the look and feel of their
environment and if they are visually impaired, your changing of fonts may
make your pages hard to read.
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