Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:44:44 +0000, Roedy Green wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:38:49 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote or quoted :
> 
>>Even more invariably, they set the point size directly rather than in
>>relative terms, and they are on Windows, where point sizes are about 20%
>>oversized.
> 
>  that is like giving up Java because there was a bug in the Windows
> JVM. FIX THE BUG.

Only Microsoft can do that. They designed their font system in such a way
that it ignored real typesetters measurements, probably so it would be
deliberately incompatible with font sizes on the Mac. Either that or just
through incompetence. Now, it is almost certainly unfixable in Win9x and
XP -- it would break too many people's Word documents and web pages.
Microsoft could maybe fix it in Vista, if they care too. As if it matters
what they put in Vista.

But that isn't going to stop lusers setting the font size to 5pt or 55pt
just because they think it is kewl. Until we can send fatal electric
shocks through the Internet, there is little we can do to stop that.


-- 
Steven.