Re: small font

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: small font
Date	2024-07-07 07:40 +0200
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:17:51PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

[...]

> FWIW to any not familiar with how email was 30+ years ago, M$ and Win95 seem to be
> the root blame for the practice of both use of not only HTML for email by default,
> but also of defaulting to imposition of a smaller than default font size in those
> HTML emails, apparently to match what web designers were doing, making email
> mousetype similar to the web page mousetype those eagle-eyed designers were fond
> of imposing on everyone in the days before zoom was invented.

[...]

Don't blame the designers. There has always been a struggle over control
of the end user's computer -- just as a means of reaching the end user's
perception. The companies are winning.

That's what we get when the companies financing the infrastructure are all,
basically, advertising companies (Microsoft? They don't make tech. They sell
tech).

Cheers
-- 
t

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    Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF eben@gmx.us - 2024-07-03 21:40 +0200
    Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-03 23:10 +0200
      Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-03 23:20 +0200
        Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-03 23:30 +0200
          Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-07-04 05:20 +0200
            Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 05:20 +0200
      small font (was: Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from  existing PDF) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 04:40 +0200
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          Re: small font "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-07-04 11:30 +0200
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            Re: small font jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 12:30 +0200
              Re: small font <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-04 12:40 +0200
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                Re: small font Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-04 14:30 +0200
                Re: small font Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 15:10 +0200
                Re: small font Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-07-04 14:30 +0200
              Re: small font Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 05:00 +0200
          Re: small font Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 16:30 +0200
            Re: small font Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-04 16:50 +0200
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                Re: small font Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 05:10 +0200
                Re: small font Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 11:00 +0200
                Re: small font Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-05 13:40 +0200
                Re: small font Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 14:10 +0200
                Re: small font Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-07-05 14:10 +0200
                Re: small font Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com> - 2024-07-05 14:20 +0200
                Re: small font Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-07-05 20:10 +0200
                Re: small font Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-07-05 21:10 +0200
                Re: small font debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-07-06 16:50 +0200
                Re: small font Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-07-07 01:20 +0200
                Re: small font <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-07 07:40 +0200
                Re: small font Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 04:40 +0200
  Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Ceppo <ceppo@oziosi.org> - 2024-07-08 19:00 +0200
    Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-09 00:10 +0200

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