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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!
>=20
> You know when this is really great? When you're viewing source.=20
> Today I was looking at Net::Domain::TLD on the CPAN (the hatefulness
> of NDT and the CPAN can wait) and I noticed something...
>=20
> http://search.cpan.org/src/ALEXP/Net-Domain-TLD-1.5/TLD.pm
>=20
> These lines:
>=20
> q{et} =3D> q{Ethiopia},
> q{fi} =3D> q{Finland},
>=20
> 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!
Actually, the combined "fi" is called a ligature. Kerning is adjusting
the space between letters.
> This hate brought to you by Safari Version 2.0.1 (412.5).
I also have Safari 2.0.1 (412.5) and for me the letters line up. There
must be some difference in default mono-spaced font (mine appears to be
Courier 13) or some other utility that is replacing the letters with
that ligature on your system and not on mine. (It may be on my end, but
I have no idea what it would be.)
--=20
Jeremy Weathers
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"Damn, this crappy phone is slow!"
- Wil Shipley
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