[thelist] Standards, Verdana and surfing

I was bothered by the thought that IE5 for Mac had implied that 96dpi was a
W3C standard, so I went to the source to find out.

I still don't know, but I came across a fascinating thread called "Origin of
Verdana (was RE: Public Domain Fonts for the Web)".  It's really pretty
neat.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/1998JanMar/0045.html

Reading through, I came across a couple links to this site:

http://style.metrius.com/ (alternatively, http://style.verso.com/ )

It's a good discussion of fonts, web typography, and where there are
problems with common usage and browser rendering.

I still don't know if the 96dpi thing is true, but I haven't finished the
thread.

If you haven't seen Agitprop yet (the name of the site above), take a look
at it.  

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bob davis
bobd@members.evolt.org