Re: How to make animation????

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Andreas Freise <fre...@stud.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

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>It's not a bug, it's a feature as usual. I asked some people
>from the javascript newsgroups and the proportional font in
>IE textareas is (unfortunately) a well know fact.

>You cannot change that by :

>1. setting all windows fonts to a fixed one

Yup... I've changed every lay-out preference in the windows control
panel. So right now i'm looking at a totally screwed up screen. ;) And
you're right: THE ONLY THING THAT HASN'T CHANGED IS THE FONT INSIDE
THE SCROLL BOX. Really, this is not a joke.

Other java features, like the alert and the text running along the
scrolline are affected. As far as i can tell "ours" is the only
feature which is left unharmed by the adjustments made in the os.

Even the size of the scroll bar and the background colour in the text
box are different. (So when you wanna look at the animation against a
yellow background - here's the answer ;)

OK playtime is over, let's put the windows interface back to normal.
OH NO, WHERE'S THE DEFAULT BUTTON?????

>2. setting all browser fonts to a fixed one

In netscape the text inside the scroll boxes can be changed by
changing the fixed font face. It's not possible to select a
proportional font though.

>3. using <pre> or <tt>
>4. using <font face='fixedfont'>

Right, HTML has got nothing to do with it.

>At least, I cannot. I have tried every stupid idea
>for about a week and asked a lot of people. It's
>just not possible. Basta.

Have you tried my BIG stupid idea? :)
Think i'm gonna re-install windows (not 95, 3.11 of course :)) 

>I've still got a faint hope but I'm fed up with
>MS once again. :(

I'm not an expert - i don't know exactly what you mean by saying "It's
not a bug, it's a feature" - but if your definition of a feature is "a
fixed preference" i think you're absolutely right.

The question remains: is this intentional or by accident?

A bug i can think of: the browser tells the javascript two different
things. 1) Get your font in the fixed font preference 2) Get your font
in the desktop preference. The problem is "fixed" by a
trouble-shooting msie programmer by adding the line: "if not use the
windows 95 desktop default font. (For there is no default button maybe
it better be called the "original" font :(

But worse than me being a non-programmer is not having enough test
results to support this silly hypothesis.

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David Reilly and David Bird. Are you still listening?

You both posted MSIE3 on windows 3.11 used a fixed font. Can you
figure out which preference it's connected with (in the browser or in
the os)?

Many thanks,


mic

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