Re: And things were going so well....

axlq wrote:

In article <cWd0g.10589$az4.7456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Try a modern DOCTYPE. HTML 4.0 Transitional is way old. Use 4.01 Strict
for all new documents.

Someone explain to me what's wrong with HTML 4.0 Transitional. So
what if it's old? It's widely supported and it works.

...for some degree of work (to borrow a phrase).

I develop pages in either Transitional or Strict, as it suits me.
If I'm in a hurry, Transitional is more efficient, at least for me.

I find no problem churning out pages in Strict. In fact, with all the
presentation in the style ***, it is actually faster.

Drop Verdana.
http://xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

That's ridiculous. His argument is basically "Verdana looks too big
for my taste" -- and he claims to speak for "most people" in that
regard. Yeah, right. If that's the look you want on your site,
then use it. Personally I find Verdana much easier on my eyes when
reading a lot of text (such as a short story) on the web, than any
other font rendered the same size.

The problem is that authors who use Verdana almost always set their font
sizes smaller than 100%, or 1em, usually something like 10px or 80%.
They themselves think it looks too large, apparently (and don't know how
to adjust their own browsrs).

Then the visitor without Verdana comes along, gets your fallback font,
and it looks like flyspecks.

You're mixing serif and sans-serif fonts, which is unusual.

It's perfectly normal if done consistently; for example serif for
headings and san-serif for body text. This is standard convention
in textbooks (actually opposite, san-serif for headings and serif
for body text).

You missed my point. The original site (now changed, I believe) used:

font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif;

...all for one element. Using a sans-serif, a serif, a sans-serif, and
the sans-serif fallback, is .. um .. unusual. Georgia is a serifed font.

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