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102321 2002-12-02 08:40:00 sending 2 emails about the same thing is pointless and means even more to download. tweak'e (174)
102322 2002-12-02 09:23:00 > HTML. why?? cause peole like fancy stuff regaurdless
> of the bugs/secirty risks etc.

Indeed they do. I have a contact who has been captured by Incredimail. Lots of fancy stuff, animated GIFs etc etc ..........
But not much text.....
TonyF (246)
102323 2002-12-02 09:31:00 >> Indeed they do. I have a contact who has been captured by Incredimail. Lots of fancy stuff, animated GIFs etc etc ..........
>>But not much text.....

I know what you mean. But with some people you have to be grateful for ANY correspondence at all....... :D
Susan B (19)
102324 2002-12-02 09:31:00 Web pages and html emails all use something in common - the html markup language.

HTML doesn't actually contain stuff like font code - it contains a link to the font stored on the recipient's computer. This makes html files much smaller than things like Word documents which stores the font code in the actual document. It does, however, mean that the recipient won't see the fancy font if they don't have it installed.

Another problem is that Macs and PCs don't always contain the same fonts as standards.

This explains why most web pages use one of a very select group of fonts. Headings and logos in a different font are usually stored as images to get round the problem.
Heather P (163)
102325 2002-12-02 22:06:00 Obviously I've been misunderstood... The plain text e-mail only contains the font file, and instructions on where to put it. Okay, sending two e-mails at once can be rather cumbersome, but how many of you have attempted retrieving 3 Mb of e-mails because a 'friend' decided to send you that 102 page list of blonde jokes, and did it with a nice, fancy, stationery-using e-mail? All well and good, unless the best connection you can get to the net is 42.6kbits, ah la me...
Oh and by the way, it took 2 hours, and over 50% were repeats of jokes from earlier in the list, and about half of what was left, he'd sent me before...
ambasluv (1414)
102326 2002-12-02 22:13:00 2 minor problems with that one.

1. The font is probably copywrited
2. Most people won't install it.
Heather P (163)
102327 2002-12-04 21:40:00 Well, that one's new to me. A copyrighted font... Interesting I must say... Makes me feel just a little bit silly. Good call! Looks like you're m8s are going to have to shell out for one of those font cd's, unless you want to break some laws... (not advisable)

Bummer.

I still feel silly...
ambasluv (1414)
102328 2002-12-05 00:50:00 One learns by experience. You've obviously not received a document from a client containing some weird Adobe font that they want matched on their web site.

Lots of fonts are in the public domain but others are copyrighted.
Heather P (163)
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