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New user? Thursday, February 10, 2000
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Cool! I visited Redmonk today.. (it's a regular visit for me) Steven had linked the word "Canadian". I thought, "hey, I wonder what he thinks is Canadian?" The link took me back here! Hehe, it's abOOt time someone noticed! Thanks Steven!
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I don't know what's funnier or scarier... this ZDNet article which says there are 63,000 known issues (bugs and stuff) with Windows 2000, or the percentage of the comments made by readers from Redmond, WA, who list their occupation as "Engineer" or "Software Engineer", that are making excuses for the product. 
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
Tuesday, February 8, 2000
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Meanwhile...
I'm not alone! People are upset about CNN's crappy redesign over at inessential.com too...
This is what I'm talking about
I filled out their (tiny) feedback form yesterday. I hated that too, the TEXTAREA was about 17x6, way too small to type in! Here's their response:
Thank you for contacting CNN Interactive and for providing us your input.
If you're having problems viewing our web site due to the font size, you may try adjusting the text size in your browser.
To change text size through Microsoft's Internet Explorer:
Click on View, and then Text Size.
Select Medium instead of Smaller or Smallest .
To change text size through Netscape's Navigator:
Click on View, and then Increase font until the text is a comfortable size.
CNN Interactive offers a variety of message boards (http://cnn.com/discussion) on topics ranging from the latest news issues, to special interest topics such as Entertainment, Books, and Travel. We also offer daily news chats (http://cnn.com/chat) as well as Chat Events with Special Guests.
Thanks again for your interest and keep your browser pointed to http://cnn.com.
Sincerely,
The CNN.com Community Staff
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My reply, with a free idea:
Then all the other sites would be too large! *Every* other site I visit is at a comfortable size right now.
I'm not about to do that... would you do that in my situation? No, I didn't think so.
Why not allow users to store font-size preferences in their cookies?
If present, you include a style-sheet in the page that sets the default text size to the desired height.
I'm a web application developer, so I know this is easy. Maybe not as easy on CNN.com's scale, but still easy enough.
>Thanks again for your interest and keep your browser pointed to http://cnn.com.
I *am* interested, your site provides great content, but I'm already visiting less often. I wish that weren't the case. Please let me know if the size is restored to the previous setting, or if you implement user-controllable preferences.
