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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:47:54 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
Message-ID:  <41CBBB9A.5000001@nbritton.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041224054000.GL19624@funkthat.com>
References:  <20041223112731.GA32750@ninja.terrabionic.com> <89b41e4704122303546aaa8d83@mail.gmail.com> <20041223133440.GC786@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <41CB9F16.1010405@nbritton.org> <20041224054000.GL19624@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote:

>Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600:
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>>2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a 
>>modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading 
>>Style Sheets?)
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>you mean a sans-serif font? yes, most computer display fonts should
>be sans-serif since the screen resolution does not always allow you to
>do that...  (and Helvetica isn't that modern, about 50 years old now
>it appears)...
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Yes

>As for CSS, it appears that we do use CSS on the site:
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./index.css" />
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>And part of CSS is letting people choose what font they want to display
>the site in...  It appears at least Mozilla chooses Times by default...
>So I'd more complain to the browers that display with the default font..
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learn something new everyday, thanks for the tip.



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