I too have often changed my netscape font defaults upon installation...
which uses the system default, which is quite small for some if your
resolution is set to anything greater than 640x480.
To answer the question? I thought Terry Collins / Jill Rowing answered it
quite apptly.
>>Netscape edit - preferences - fonts
Yep.. I thought this would resolve viewing 'web content' with hopefully
larger fonts (depending on the font setting chosen)... right????
>>>Another way round it might be to alter the system-wide X defaults such
that
>>>the 75dpi fonts get loaded first, then the 100 dpi ones (or vice-versa,
>>>depends on what you prefer).
>>>Also you can set your Netscape preferences so that you over-ride whatever
>>>the document sets the fonts to be, although I suspect you have already
done
>>>that.
>>>Also you can alter your screen resolution so that ALL fonts are displayed
>>>large.
>>>Again, this is in the X defaults.
This will pretty much overide all other defaults... as stated... which could
be a good thing.
>>You will soon realise that most WWW pages are about image
Yes... most WWW pages are about image (in the sense of making a prescense).
Thus some authors may have already chosen a 'scale' of type face or a
particular type to present this with... to make their 'image' noticable.
In terms of it being an image (in the literal sense... hehehehe) Web
'content' is parsed though some sort of 'renderer'... be it of a graphical
nature or non-graphical nature...
I suppose things like formats, positioning of 'content' and any other
viewabile content (graphic or not) is visual, and subject to the author hard
setting things like style, formatting types and even fonts.
Some Web authoring tools set the font type and sizes (ie: tahoma 6pt) in the
document upon creation... It may look great on the machine developed on, but
may result as 'unpredicted output' on another machine, usually irrespective
of browser font settings, becuase they are hard coded. Resolution usually
depicts the readability of these pages.
>>If you mother has a good system on her 386, tell her to stay there. It
>>obviously works and is not broke.
Agree... Why change something that aint broke... It could probably always be
enhanced, but if not needed to, then why put strain on a 'system' when it is
already coping...
Over
John Z.
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