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Posted by Peter Olcott on 06/20/06 21:48
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
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> Peter Olcott wrote:
>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
>> news:f0738$44985634$40cba77f$10133@NAXS.COM...
>>> Peter Olcott wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wrong assumption. This will be a software product running on the client
>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>> Okay, well it is not clear what you are trying to do.
>>>
>>> 1) Discover all the settings of the users browser?
>>> 2) Discover all fonts a user has on his system?
>>> 3) Discover all specified fonts on a specific webpage?
>>> 4) Discover all specified fonts on all webpages the user is viewing?
>>>
>>> #3 is easy, view source HTML and stylesheet.
>>>
>>> #1,2,4 are kind of creepy, #4 especially. Wouldn't sell me on your product.
>>
>> I will only need this for the specific web pages that the user invokes my
>> program on, yet these can be any arbitrary web-page. I must have the exact
>> details of the FontInstance. If the HTML says small, I need to know the
>> precise point size. This must work for any web presentation language, not
>> just HTML.
>
> Well that is where your problem lies, font size it a complex relation of what
> is defined on the website and what is set in the user settings of the browser
> and what is the setting of the browser default AND what is available on the
> user's system. Another thing is are your looking for the size as displayed on
> the screen or printed on the paper?
I don't care about the paper sized font, only the screen sized font.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
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> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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