From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Rob Stewart wrote:
From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
While Rene was wrangling fonts I forgot that I went through this whole process with Bill Venners of Artima. We ended up with a very different answer, because Bill abhors the idea of specifying a font size; he wants to respect peoples' preferences. I would appreciate it if everybody would check out:
I looked at the HTML and CSS source. He specifies font sizes all over the place. Some are percentages of normal; some are so many ems. That doesn't fit with what you're saying. Did he ultimately give up?
As Rene said, no. In fact we worked damned hard to make it that good.
OK, so I misunderstood what you meant by "abhors the idea of specifying a font size."
But what is your overall impression of the page?
I'd call it excellent, save for the italicized formulas. The low resolution of a typical computer screen leads to garbled text because of the jaggies on the /'s, l's, and t's. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;