From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T18:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: A question for people with English OS

On 07/05/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> This is also true. If you don't have any fonts for a particular
> language, you won't be able to view it. Generally speaking, those
> that need them do have them, or can get them. They're included on the
> install disk with Windows XP and Vista and OS X installs them by
> default. Both of these OS's take internationalization very seriously.
> Linux/BSD/other unixes are more of a mixed bag but support is there.

I am not sure about the permissions on the Windows fonts folder.
Explorer offers to install fonts if it finds a page that cannot be
displayed but you may need special privileges for that.
On modern unix-like (OS X, most *BSD, Linux) systems you can put fonts
in your home folder. Firefox uses fontconfig on systems that use X11
so it can find your fonts both on OS X and most unixes.

>
> @Michal
> Like it or not, xhtml is here to stay. It is actually very easy
> because you don't have so many attributes crowding your elements.
> Lots of software to validate it. It's intended to be a form of XML so
> it uses CSS style sheets.
>
> XHTML and CSS are really really easy to learn.

I do not say that they are hard to learn or that XHTML is harder than
HTML. I am not against moving functionality from HTML to CSS either. I
liked element names in uppercase because it made them stand out. And I
do not like removing functionality. Frames in all forms are
unsupported or deprecated in XHTML as far  as I know.

Thanks

Michal