MAC: good or evil?
Richard
taymar at globalserve.net
Mon Dec 7 23:24:17 UTC 1998
In short: Mac good
I'm another devoted Mac user and I can report having none of the problems
you speak of mind you I only browse the occasional Russian site but it
seems to work fine.
>--it does not recognize the text encoding of web pages; you have to
>set it each time on a hit-or-miss basis.
This I think is a problem with Netscape 4 (Haven't tried IE) but to view
Cyrillic pages you need to apply a patch to allow it to read the encoding.
I don't this has anything to do with the Mac OS itself. I got this software
patch free from Brama's Ukrainain Gateway.
>--even if you do set the encoding, it doesn't always work
Whenever I've set the encoding it has always worked until I change it.
>--you can't make the fonts bigger by just clicking an icon, you have
>reset the default font-by-font, and then even that doesn't work most
>of the time. Thus much ends up illegibly small.
I've never had this problem. Sounds like a cyber-urban legend?
>--some sites use screwy fonts that are geared solely towards PCs,
>e.g. the MakTimes font used on a lot of Macedonian sites.
I have not been to a Macedonian site so I cannot say but I have never run
into an internet font compatabilty problem anywhere ever. My Mac handles
fonts beautifully.
>Unfortunately our local (Tallinn) Mac dealer doesn't have a clue
>about any of this. So my question is: Are the new generation Macs
>really so bad, or is there some bit of software or some such thing that
>our dealer forgot to activate?
Sounds mostly like "anti-Mac-propaganda?" that usually goes like this:
"better-not-buy-one-since-its-not-a-PC-and-it'll-have-all-sorts-of-wierd-
-problems" in my experience usually told by people who run Windows who have
never even used a Mac and barely know how to run their PC or figure out
File Manager. Present company excluded of course ;-}
Buy the iMac I've tried one with OS 8.5 its very fast the ease of use and
features are far far ahead of Windows IMO. I wish I could afford one.
thats my 2 cents
Richard Gilmore
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