I don't think it's fair to say that IE is a good browser, when people have no choice but to conform to it. It's pretty strict with HTML rules, and it only managed to get popular by what were, IMHO absolutely appalling tactics by M$. Web pages conform to IE, not vice versa.
Yes I know it's been around for a long time. It's been around since 1989 (ish), I was just making a point that using outlines is better than blending bitmaps.
Windows anti-aliasing is evil. However, the few people who have used RISC OS know that it can look/very/ nice, especially if outline fonts are used, as opposed to bitmaps.
Although Acorn's anti-aliased font manager was written in assembler for speed at the time, this was when the host machines ran at 33Mhz. A carefully written anti-aliasing font manager for X (using outline fonts) could potentially look extremely nice.
Personally, I think the situation is a pathetic display from both sides. Registering various domain names, just to annoy Guiness is pretty childish, but I don't believe that Guiness have the right to remove every.com with the word 'guiness' in it.
If he wanted to slag off Guiness, he could have just made an amusing website on geocities or whatever.
This sort of behaviour is really starting to screw up the internet.
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I don't think it's fair to say that IE is a good browser, when people have no choice but to conform to it. It's pretty strict with HTML rules, and it only managed to get popular by what were, IMHO absolutely appalling tactics by M$. Web pages conform to IE, not vice versa.
Yeah, it can look /ok/, but it's not the best I've seen by a very long way. It's also pretty slow too, IIRC.
Yes I know it's been around for a long time. It's been around since 1989 (ish), I was just making a point that using outlines is better than blending bitmaps.
Windows anti-aliasing is evil. However, the few people who have used RISC OS know that it can look /very/ nice, especially if outline fonts are used, as opposed to bitmaps.
Although Acorn's anti-aliased font manager was written in assembler for speed at the time, this was when the host machines ran at 33Mhz. A carefully written anti-aliasing font manager for X (using outline fonts) could potentially look extremely nice.
Personally, I think the situation is a pathetic display from both sides. Registering various domain names, just to annoy Guiness is pretty childish, but I don't believe that Guiness have the right to remove every .com with the word 'guiness' in it.
If he wanted to slag off Guiness, he could have just made an amusing website on geocities or whatever.
This sort of behaviour is really starting to screw up the internet.