on Tue, Jul 30, 2002, John W. M. Stevens (john@betelgeuse.us) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:22:55PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:
> >
> > > Getting older, the main things I notice are:
> > > Fear of learning new things.
> > > Fear of complexity.
> >
> > To overcome these fears, I switched from DOS to Debian at age 70,
> > and began learning bash scripting; became a Debian developer at age 71
> > and began studying C programming.
>
> Go get 'em!
>
> > > Are they serious about that <small> font on their webpage.
> >
> > I met this problem by getting a 21" monitor.
>
> You can also deal with this (web pages only, of course) by
> setting your Mozilla preferences correctly.
>
> Choose a VERY BAD web page, then go in and set your font preferences
> to the size of fonts you are comfortable reading.
>
> Be sure to override the document font preferences, of course . . .
My very strong preference here is to disable most <font> antics with a
user CSS. For Galeon and Mozilla, this is userContent.css in the
application's config directory (.galeon or .mozilla, appropriate
subdirectory).
For more infomration:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS
I've snipped your rant, but note that CSS _does_ put the power back in
the reader's hands.
Peace.
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