monospace (unless ugly)

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From: Ricardo SIGNES
Subject: monospace (unless ugly)
Date: 22:04 on 26 Oct 2005
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Apple knows that good design is key.  If you present the user with a
beautiful experience, they will keep coming back, right?  That's why
they've always spent so much money on having good typesetting.  I mean,
hey, they kern fonts on screen!

You know when this is really great?  When you're viewing source.  Today
I was looking at Net::Domain::TLD on the CPAN (the hatefulness of NDT
and the CPAN can wait) and I noticed something...

	http://search.cpan.org/src/ALEXP/Net-Domain-TLD-1.5/TLD.pm

These lines:

	q{et} =3D> q{Ethiopia},
	q{fi} =3D> q{Finland},

didn't line up.  Why?  Because fi is a kernable letter pair, of course!
Lining up columns is nice and all, but it just doesn't compare to the
awesomeness of having your f dot your i!

This hate brought to you by Safari Version 2.0.1 (412.5).

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