THE DESIGNER AND THE ENGINEER
 Throughout history, Artsy types and techy types have always been
 in conflict. This is most probably caused by 'Right Brain'
 and 'Left Brain' dominance of the respective professions.
 
 I am sure there was conflict even when the wheel was designed
 'Make it perfectly round to reduce friction," said the wheel 
 techician.
 
 "No, perfectly round is so boring and generic," argued the
 wheel designer.
 
 Well in today's moden age, the internet has created one of the
 most glaring and continuous confrontations between the two.
 Here is a recent conversation overheard between a web deigner
 and an engineer.
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 Hi, I don't think we've met yet. I'm the designer. I just started, 
 and I have a bit of a technical question.
 
 That's what I'm here for. What's the problem?
 
 Well, I was wondering how you set the font in HTML? 
 How do I make sure that our audience gets their text 
 in Myriad MM light norm 12 pt?
 
 Oh that's an easy one!
 
 Great! What is it?
 
 You can't. Cheers!
 
 That doesn't make any sense.
 
 Sure it does. You see, HTML is designed to work on all computers
 and all displays. You don't know what fonts people are going to 
 have installed on their machines or even if they have monitors. 
 They may be visually impaired, you know. So trying to set the 
 font is a useless endeavor.
 
 So I'm stuck designing with the default fonts set by the 
 Web browser?
 
 Well, unless readers set their own fonts.
 
 What?
 
 Yeah, check it out. I've set up my fonts and display just the 
 way I like it: black background, orange text, and the fonts are 
 all Courier.
 
 AAAHHHHHH!!!!! You fiend! My designs! My beautiful designs! 
 All ruined! What a world ... what a world....
 
 Well that's what you get when you try to control visual presentation
 on a multiplatform environment.
 
 Stupid designer.
 
 Some time later ...
 
 I figured it out!
 
 What? What did you figure out?
 
 Fonts on the Web. I got them to work.
 
 WOW! It's ... it's beautiful! Elegant, refined, readable. 
 I don't understand. This shouldn't be possible. How'd you do this?
 
 Oh, it was easy. I made our entire site into a background GIF, 
 flattened the text down into the bitmap, and then just made 
 an image map around all the linkable items.
 
 But that's monstrous! It's unstructured! It's unsearchable! 
 It's unindexable! It's ... it's ...
 
 It's got the font control that I need.
 
 (looks at file size) IT'S 150 KILOBYTES!!!!
 
 But I have the fonts I needed.
 
 AHHHH!!!!!! My server! My poor server! 
 What a world! What a world.