[Year 12 IT Apps] Jeb - bad president or bad font? help

[Laurie Savage]

Ah, the wonders of Lynx, Mutt, Fetchmail and configuring Sendmail. Oh
frabjous day, calloo, callay he chortled in his joy.

To be honest, I don't miss any of them ... except Mutt, arcane, fast and
brilliant.

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 15 August 2015 at 13:50, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did somebody say IE 6 emulator?  http://netrenderer.com/, this German
> error screen brings back memories. What could be more retro than looking at
> the future with IE6 glasses.
>
> How about Lynx, an original that I used in the early 1990’s
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 17 Jun 2015, at 9:04 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
> Use Comic Sans for body text.
> Use frames.
> Animated GIFs rule.
> CSS is a passing fad. Ignore it.
> Stick with HTML 1.0 for compatibility with Internet Explorer 6.
>
> That's all they need to know. All the rest is practice.
> Hope that helps, Nagla.
>
> Mark
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> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Mekail, Nagla N <
> mekail.nagla.n at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am really need help, I have a “webpage authoring” Y9 class as first
>> time teaching it and I have no idea what I should teach them, anything will
>> help.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Nagla
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>> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
>> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 June 2015 8:41 PM
>> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
>> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Jeb - bad president or bad font?
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>> But sir, he made fun of my typeface.  Sob...
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>> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Here here, settle down everybody. Close that frame and put down that font
>> before somebody gets seriously hurt.
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>> I had too much fun with the “Websites that Suck” website .. design hell
>> to teach good design skills. The author slipped into retirement and
>> obscurity .. :-(
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>> Here are some real clients from hell .. good share with your students:
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>> http://www.buzzfeed.com/jobarrow/sorry-did-you-actually-want-comic-sans
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>> —
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>> *Roland GESTHUIZEN *http://about.me/rgesthuizen
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>> On 17 Jun 2015, at 3:23 pm, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
>> wrote:
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>> I promise not to show this to my year 9 Systems class, They'd love it too
>> much. I still have a teacher who insists on building sites with frames and
>> Flash.
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>> Laurie Savage
>> home | mr savage
>> <https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>
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>> On 17 June 2015 at 15:08, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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>> I learned everything I know about web design from Warner Brothers.
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>> It's got *frames* and everything!
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>> http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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>> I suggest you give it to your web design students as a salutary example.
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>> Mark
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>> On 17 June 2015 at 14:29, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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>> On 17 June 2015 at 14:09, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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>> While we're talking about bad fonts ... you're not considering running
>> for president are you? ^____^
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>> I could do. I have a cognitive disability when it comes to design, as
>> anyone who has been to vceit.com can attest.
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>> Some people are tone deaf. I'm design deaf.
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>> Anyway - what's wrong with the Angry Birds font??
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>> Will you be telling me next that you don't like using delightfully
>> whimsical Comic Sans for body text on webpages and in emails?
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>> Philistine!
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>> Laurie Savage
>> home | mr savage
>> <https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>
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>> On 17 June 2015 at 08:51, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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>> I should have explained that the post was relevant to ITA because of
>> design principles.  :-)
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>> On 17 June 2015 at 08:49, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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>> Sometimes fellow-tech people make me squirm in discomfort.
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>> The U.S. is facing another possible silly season with another Bush in
>> charge, and the tech writers are angry about the *typography* on his
>> logo.  It's good to see they know where their priorities lie.
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>> http://www.wired.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-logo-jeb/
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>> What's so wrong with the <BLINK> tag? Bring it back in HTML6.
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