From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Tue May 26 2009 - 05:05:45 CDT
As a member of both the Irish translation team of IE (paid) and the
Irish translation team of Firefox (unpaid) - I have to step in to
counter Andrew's hatred of the latter (see how his own msg, attached
below, actually confirms its great value to users). I used some of my
free time to do the latter, as part of a great international team of
volunteers and I was hired by Microsoft to do the former, so I believe I
can speak with some authority here (cc: MOZILLA-L@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE).
mg
Scríobh Andrew West:
> 2009/5/26 Damon Anderson <damon@corigo.com>:
>
>> 2. IE 8 - boxes
>>
>
> Boxes. Nothing you can do about it other than applying a custom
> sylesheet from the "Accessibility" tab.
>
>
>> 4. Chrome - boxes
>>
>
> Boxes initially, but displayed OK when I changed the default font
> setting to use Code2000.
>
>
>> 5. Firefox - characters
>>
>
> [Firefox 3.0.5]
>
> Boxes initially, but displayed OK when I changed the default font
> setting to use Code2000.
>
>
>> I would have to say Firefox is the clear winner in this case. Something is
>> definately better than nothing... and I hate Firefox.
>>
>
> I hate Firefox too. In this case Firefox and Chrome are equal first
> (and I possibly hate Chrome even more than I hate Firefox). IE could
> so easily be the winner if only Microsoft would update the Font
> settings dialog to cover all the Unicode scripts that have been added
> since Unicode 3.0 (like charmap it's stuck in a time warp), fix the
> broken font mappings (Myanmar and Mongolian) and add a default font
> setting.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
-- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland * mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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