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graphic text or ...?
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Hal Shubin <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:44:47 -0400
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I'm stuck for a term. You can have two kinds of text in a Web browser: text
in a GIF or JPEG image, or the other kind. Y'know, it's the kind that you
can copy and paste, that can appear in different fonts and sizes depending
on system configurations.

What do you call that text? I'm doing a Web site review now, and I'm facing
the same problem I always do -- I don't have a name for the non-graphic
text. (And "non-graphic text" is saying what it's not, not what it is.)

thanks                                  -- hs

Hal Shubin, Interaction Design, Inc.
http://www.user.com
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