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Cookies

Cookies are small text files that some websites put on your computer to store a variety of information about you and your preferences. Here are answers to some common questions about cookies.

What are cookies used for?

Websites use cookies to offer a personalized experience to users and to gather information about website use. Many websites also use cookies to store information that provides a consistent experience between sections of the site, such as a shopping cart or customized pages. With a trusted website, cookies can enrich your experience by allowing the site to learn your preferences or allowing you to skip having to sign in every time you go to the website. However, some cookies, such as those saved by banner ads, might put your privacy at risk by tracking sites you visit.

Can I block cookies?

Yes, you can block or allow cookies on all websites or you can choose which websites’ cookies are allowed. For more information, click Related Topics.

Should I block all cookies?

Not necessarily. Blocking all cookies can help protect your privacy, but it might limit your experience on some websites. Be selective about which websites you allow cookies for. You can start by blocking all cookies, then allow cookies as needed for websites that you trust.

How do I delete cookies?

To delete all cookies, follow these steps:

  1. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.
  2. On the General tab, under Browsing history, click Delete.
  3. Select the Cookies check box, and then click Delete.

Notes

  • Deleting all cookies might cause some webpages to work incorrectly.
  • For more information about cookies, including information about how to delete an individual cookie, click Related Topics.

What are Temporary cookies?

Temporary cookies (or session cookies) are removed from your computer after you close Internet Explorer. Websites use them to store temporary information, such as items in your shopping cart.

What are Persistent cookies?

Persistent cookies (or saved cookies) remain on your computer after you close Internet Explorer. Websites use them to store information, such as your sign-in name and password, so that you don’t have to sign in each time you go to a particular site. Persistent cookies can remain on your computer for days, months, or even years.

What are First-party cookies?

First-party cookies come from the website that you’re viewing and can be either persistent or temporary. Websites might use these cookies to store information that they’ll reuse the next time you go to that site.

What are Third-party cookies?

Third-party cookies come from other websites’ advertisements (such as pop-up or banner ads) on the website that you’re viewing. Websites might use these cookies to track your web use for marketing purposes.

Where are cookies stored?

Cookies are stored is in a folder named Cookies which is stored inside the Documents and Settings folder. By default, the path is C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Cookies.

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How to embed a True Type Font on your web page?

You may have an interesting or weird font type that you want on your web page, but in order for other people to be able to see this font you will need to embed it on your web page. Why? Because when a visitor views a web site, the only fonts that will display are those installed on the visitors system!

So if you want either a weird gothic font or an old Celtic font such as in the main logo of my site (which is actually an image) you will need to either display the font in an image or embed the font in your web page.

Why Use Embedded Fonts?

Because a font is an operating system resource, not a browser resource. If you have an unusual font installed on your PC, it’s easy to design a Web page and include that font. You can see it because the font is installed on your operating system. But if your visitors don’t have it installed too, their browsers will display their default font instead.

From a page designer’s perspective, this is a big weakness. You want pages to display like you intend, but can’t control an individual browser’s display. No matter how carefully you lay out your page with a particular font, you’re at the mercy of the user’s browser when the page is displayed.

That’s where embedded fonts come in: with them, you don’t have to worry about browsers defaulting to a more common font. Instead, your font downloads along with the page.

1. Locate And Use The Font

Finding fonts is easy. Once you’ve found the perfect font, you’re ready to download it to your computer and use it in your page design.

Do some research first though: some designers don’t allow their fonts to be embedded. TrueType fonts have embedding permissions encoded within them. Please respect the designer’s wishes to avoid any potential copyright problems!

2. Create An Embedded Font File

You have to use a third-party application that creates an embedded font file using the font you installed locally on your hard drive. This task may be time-consuming because Netscape and Explorer both use different formats.

Recently though, Netscape updated its method to support Explorer browsers. Microsoft continues to use a proprietary technology.

Create embedded fonts using one of 2 available formats:

  1. Portable Font Resources (.pfr): TrueDoc technology was developed by Bitstream and licensed by Netscape. It can be viewed by Navigator 4.0+ and Explorer 4.0+ on Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms.
  2. Embeddable Open Type (.eot): Compatible only with Explorer 4.0+ on the Windows platform. Create .eot files using Microsoft’s free Web Embedding Font Tool (WEFT).

After you’ve created the embedded font file, you’re ready to attach it to a CSS.

3. Attach To Your Style Sheet

  1. Into the HEAD section of your document insert:

    Example with True Type

    To work in IE4 and above, you need to add a pointer to an ActiveX control immediately after the LINK tag OR ELSE create an OpenType file for Explorer and refer to both on your page.

    TrueDoc fonts stay within the browser: you can’t download them to your system

    Example with Open Type

This method works in IE5 & IE6 but is not supported by Firefox/Opera.

A List Apart have an article on Dynamic Text Replacement which presents an interesting method for replacing blocks of text such as headers with dynamic images. Worth checking out.

This method works in IE5 & IE6 but is not supported by Firefox/Opera.

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