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jpinkerton
From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>
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jpinkerton
Well, anyone who designs a website with absolute widths
is an idiot
;-)
Or they are following the original flawed standard.
I thought that I was doing the obvious thing in calling up
an obscure
Stanford Prof called Don Knuth who had written a little used
typesetting program called TeX for advice on how to do stuff.
Turns out I was wrong, you just stick the first idiotic
idea you have
into the browser, send off a note to www-talk go home to sleep and
then release when you wake up.
For extra points spend the next five years telling people that
objections
to
the way you did it were in fact objections to putting
images, tables
etc.
in
the browser.
Sorry Phillip - that was completely lost on me - I'm glad to say :-)
Try it without sarcasm, innuendo and obscure referencing ;-)
The CERN Web team which I was a member of believed that units for tables etc
should be scaled to font units the way it is done in TeX where em and ex are
units of measure equivalent to the width of capital M and small x.
Some guy at NCSA whose name I have forgotten decided to do it differently,
after all everyone has 75dpi monitors and run X-Motif don't they?