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Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:09:29AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * peter f miller <pfmiller@xxxxx.xxx> [2006-10-20 19:55]:
> > The hateful aspect of them that got me started on the search is
> > the inability to resize the windows. Ugh!
>
> Yeah, that is stupid. Chromeless windows can be useful, but
> selectively disabling UI capabilities is pointless. There should
> be a way to request a certain size and whether or not the window
> should have chrome, but no specifics past that -- no screwing
> with scrollbars or resizability or any of that nonsense.
Well, it all stems back to folks who want to force the web to behave like a word
processor, where you have total control of page layout, font size, et al. To all
of them I would say, "Get over it!" Some of us don't like your choice of fonts,
don't agree with your decision to artificially limit the size of our pages based
on actual inches/centimeters rather than as a percentage of window size or in
proportion to font size, so when those of us with bad eyes or super hi-res
monitors turn the point size of the fonts up, we get to read
Text
that
looks
like
this.
Fsckers!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx>;
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door,
screaming, 'Take me, take me!'"
-- Carl Jacobs, from alt.sysadmin.recovery
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