Re: Layout of Dialog (screen resolutions, font sizes etc)
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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It would be nice if the market worked that way. Unfortunately, the cost
of producing
these products is high, and the existing products own the market.
Essentially we are now discussing how much should mainstream software cater
to handicapped people, and how much that catering should negatively impact
the experience of non-handicapped people. I'm all for helping out the
handicapped but not at the expense of sacrificing one iota for the
mainstream audience.
My same philsosophy goes towards localizing. Many apps try to accomodate
the longer text in foreign languages by simply creating dialog controls
wider than necessary. This makes the English text look lost in a gigantic
button, for example. My opinion is that English users should get a first
class experience, and the dialog controls need to be resized for each
language.
By the way, the HTML produced by Word, to put it mildly, sucks. It is
perhaps the single
worst way to generate Web pages. Have you ever tried to edit the HTML it
produces to get
the effects you need? There is so much overhead it is almost impossible
to decrypt what
is going on.
No I've not used Word for HTML. I don't have any experience with what kind
of HTML it spits out. But I know it has a nice Zoom View feature for you,
and it's surprising to hear you care about editing the raw HTML it spits
out. Your site uses very basic HTML elements, so I didn't think it required
hand editing. Sorry my suggestion caused you such a bad day. Good luck
finding a suitable HTML editor.
-- David