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From: TaliesinSoft on 6 May 2008 08:46
On Tue, 6 May 2008 00:10:25 -0500, dorayme wrote (in article
<doraymeRidThis-93F412.15102506052008(a)news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):

> In article <0001HW.C44540C5000B4A7BB01AD9AF(a)News.Individual.NET>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)mac.coom> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 22:43:26 -0500, dorayme wrote (in article
>> <doraymeRidThis-894FAB.13432606052008(a)news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):
>> [joining in on this thread regarding website behavior]
>>
>>> This is quite correct. It is a very bad idea to deliver text by pictures
>>> because it does not cater for those who want their text bigger or in
>>> their own chosen font.
>>
>> On my Mac
>
> Can I stop you right there? <g> A website is not *for* *your* *mac* so
> this is quite irrelevant.

I was only using my Mac as an example of how one can enlarge the text in a
website without distorting the layout. There has never been any expectation
that viewers of the site would be limited to Macs.

>> I can use the scroll wheel on the mouse or the touchpad on my MacBook Pro
>> while the Control key is pressed to magnify or reduce the size of the
>> website page I am viewing. This technique enlarges *everything* on the
>> page proportionately, to me a much better way than just enlarging the
>> text and shoving evrything else on the page hither, thither, and yon.
>>
>
> When you see a webpage design breaking when the text is enlarged by the
> user, you are seeing an incompetent webpage. You should not be taking your
> lessons from such wepages. You are avoiding *this* fault by a worse fault.
> I am confident that even the Freeway 5 developers would shake their heads
> at such a lack of confidence in their product.

Well I can only surmise then that the websites of such as Apple, Adobe, and
Microsoft are, to use your word, "incompetent". As far as Freeway goes, I
have the utmost confidence in their product. That I dislike the so-called
"liquid lalyout" and the accompanying behavior has nothing to do with
Freeway.



--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft(a)mac.com

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