From owner-freebsd-jobs Thu Nov 8 17:32:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7E1537B41F for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 34295 invoked by uid 100); 9 Nov 2001 01:32:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15339.12847.716962.467513@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:32:31 -0600 To: "Andrew Beals " Cc: freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word .doc format Not wanted. In-Reply-To: <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com> References: <20011108224229.A3841@roughtrade.net> <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Andrew Beals " types: > And the whole HTML thing is made more difficult by the silly decision to posit > that there are seven values for , where X={1..7} and the real > sizes that the numbers correspond to are renderer-defined. This is what's > causing the email from AOL 7.0 to come out in microscopic type with some > [most?] mail readers. Grumble gripe mumble. Another one of those wonderful gifts from the Mosaic/Netscape crew. Anyone who think HTML can be used as a presentation language is deluded. > Flat text works great -- why avoid it? On the contrary, avoid the alternatives - and working for most of those who use them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message