Re: TECH: Testing again, no new on-topic content (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:24 |
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:16:32 -0700, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
>
> > M2 views messages as XML, formatted according to
> > $OPERADIR\Styles\mime.css
> >
> > The relevant section is:
> >
> > <<<<
> > omf|p
> > {
> > display: block;
> > font-family: "Courier New", monospace;
> > font-size: 12px;
> > margin: 0;
> > padding: 0;
> > white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
> > }
> >>>>>
>
> Hot googly ding-dang! This is spectacular news! I'll try it this very
> evening. Why (dare I ask?) do you (plural) suppose this isn't settable from
> the Preferences dialog?
(1) Because a programmer was being lazy
(2) Because someone was an idiot and thought there was some logic to
forcing a particular font rather than defaulting to 'monospace'.*
* Anyone with websites here, never ever set the font (for body text at
least) to be something like ..., Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif. That's just
utter stupidity. sans-serif should be the only one, or perhaps the second
followed by an uncommon font. You are not the viewer (except on your
computer): your user is. Don't try to trump their settings.</rant>
--
Tristan.