Re: Netscape: font size

From: Crash Gordon® (NOVIAGRAPLEASEwebmaster_at_siriussystems.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:46:52 -0700

But Jaaaaccckkkk "my" needlepoint looks the same to everyone with 20/200 eyesight !

"Jack Brewster" <jack@removethis.andthis.mvps.org> wrote in message news:%23ywjzxKKEHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| The only folks here who work for Microsoft usually have MSFT in their name.
| The rest of us just have no lives so we like to hang out here and answer
| questions. ;)
|
| As to whether or not FP can make a site that is completely cross browser
| compatible, yes, it can. But there is a burden on the user to understand
| what they are trying to do and understand their tools' capabilities and
| limitations. Just because I go out and buy top of the line wood working
| tools doesn't mean that I'm going to turn out the quality of work that Norm
| Abrams (http://www.newyankee.com) can. It's up to me to learn how to best
| use the tools to achieve my desired results.
|
| FrontPage is a great application and I use it every day to do professional
| production work. But I also have about 14 different browsers and browser
| versions on my computer because no program can tell me how things are going
| to look. I have to check that myself. Frequently I'll find something that
| works just fine in IE, Netscape, Mozilla and Firebird/fox only to find that
| Opera isn't displaying as expected. Is that Microsoft/FrontPage's fault?
| No. Is it a bug in Opera? Maybe. But it could just as easily be a bug in
| all the other browsers and Opera is the only one getting it right. Crazy, I
| know, but it's the nature of the business.
|
| If someone wants to do professional work, then they need to learn about the
| medium they've chosen to work in. Websites, woodworking, needlepoint,
| speech writing. It's all the same. Until someone has studied, practiced
| and yes, even failed, it's unreasonable to expect them to do the job right
| every time. That same truth is only magnified when applied to software.
| Applications are unable to think, experience, and adapt like we can.
|
| Sorry, that turned into a rant. I'm not normally like that but I do get
| tired of people bashing on FrontPage as if they expect it, or any
| application, for that matter, to be the silver bullet for web design. Maybe
| someday applications will be that smart, but for now anyone building a
| website really does need to spend time learning about websites and web
| technologies in general, not just learning to use a program.
|
| --
| Jack Brewster - Microsoft FrontPage MVP
|
| "Fidelio" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:78C6C878-1244-49F5-BF0E-73C2E195E87D@microsoft.com...
| > I'm just here trying to ask for help with Fonts. I don't mean to
| criticize FP. But you say I have to know which features to use and not
| use...well, when they programmed FP, maybe they should have taken that into
| consideration with other browsers. This is supposed to be a program for
| creating websites. But if you can't create a website that has all browser
| compatibility, then what is the program good for? You can't use it for
| professional websites, because businesses need to have cross-compatability.
| >
| > It seems as though most or some of you may work for MS, so I understand
| why you may take offense to criticism. And I really do appreciate the help
| I receive on here.
| >
| > But I do believe that if the creators of FP would have taken these things
| into consideration, I wouldn't need help. The whole point of my using FP is
| because I'm not very html literate, and don't really aspire to be. I use FP
| because I don't like writing html, I like laying things out easily, the way
| FP allows me to.
|
|

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