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by glyphobet 4185 days ago
It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?
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laumars 4185 days ago
Not sure if that was a joke or not, but this problem has already been solved in CSS (@font-face). Though the downside to that would be that they'd then have the issue of hosting copyrighted content (ie the typeface).
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glyphobet 4184 days ago
Yep, that was a joke. Should have had <sarcasm> tags around it.
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clarry 4184 days ago
Not all browsers allow or support custom typefaces.
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laumars 4184 days ago
True, but equally not all browsers support images either (lynx, elinks, etc). Which is probably about the same market share as browsers that don't support custom typefaces these days. And at least custom typefaces would still leave you with a readable text on non-supported browsers - which is more than an image would (which also gives them added bonus of being easily programmatically parseable, eg by web crawlers).
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laumars 4184 days ago
Why on earth was that voted down? It wasn't rude, spam, nor factually inaccurate.

I'm getting quite fed up with people who abuse their negative karma privileges. I mean, at least justify your peer moderation with a follow up comment when the reason for the penalty is as ambiguous as it is in this instance.

I excepect I'll just get down voted again though, for daring to have a rant about people who do "hit and run" down voting...

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Dylan16807 4184 days ago
Because it was wrong.

It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging.

Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes...

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laumars 4184 days ago
> Because it was wrong.

...and once again you've failed to specify why it was wrong. Simply stating something to be wrong is a worthless comment. Provide an reason; or citation if it's necessary. I'm open to correction if you can provide a counter argument.

Though on this occasion I can say with certainty that I'm right about Comic Sans being non-free (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35) and that @font-face allows you to include custom fonts into webpages (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face).

> It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging.

It deducts points from my karma; it's a penalty.

> Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes...

I agree with that too. However that's not the issue here.

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Dylan16807 4184 days ago
@font-face is not a solution that works 100% of the time.

I'm not sure how to back that up, it's a basic fact.

Someone was being cheeky about ensuring comic sans. You replied by 'correcting' them with something that wouldn't in fact ensure comic sans. It was wrong and not particularly useful, and it had a good amount of missing-the-joke, so it got downvoted.

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laumars 4184 days ago
I didn't say it works 100% of time. (See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832776) and I did say that I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not from the offset (text isn't always easy to judge sarcasm)

So basically what you are saying is you down voted me because you misread my post (and frankly, even if I did categorically state what you thought I said, I still think your reason would have been somewhat petty)

This is why people shouldn't down vote without leaving a reply first. :)

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