RE: [ATM] Secondary Spectrum Estimator

["Richard Klappal" <klappal@xnet.com>]

Neither Firefox nor Opera found 'Symbol' correctly on my Win2K box and I
have that font installed in both its TrueType and its Adobe formats. Maybe
it didn't know which version to use and didn't apply either one.

The HTML generated by MS Office products is the most grossly verbose
rendition of anything I've every seen.  I had one page (a table for Messier
Marathon planning) that was over 88K in size. After stripping out the
unnecessary, repeated specification of default settings for each and every
cell in the table--font face, font size, font weight, font variation,
language, ...--the page was less than 6K.

Their HTML generator needs to learn CSS as well as some basic optimization,
unless they can't be bothered.  Maybe disks, memory and faster CPUs are too
cheap to make optimization worthwhile anymore.

-----Original Message-----
From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net]On Behalf
Of Arjan te Marvelde
Sent: Saturday, 19 March, 2005 07:12
To: atm@atmlist.net
Subject: Re: [ATM] Secondary Spectrum Estimator


> Richard Klappal wrote:
>
> >I looked at Mr. Bill's rendition of the HTML. He uses a verbose method of
> >requesting "font-family: Symbol" that looks like it depends on MS
> >peculiarities rather than using the HTML special characters (δ
ω
> >for example). If it is not IE, then I guess it can't find the font.

I think any Windoze program will find the symbol font. Firefox does.
/Arjan

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