bigbuppo

There is no cert. It's http. That's how old Prospero is.

As someone else mentioned, it's almost certainly licensing costs. Monotype bought up all the classic foundries, and their licensing gets very expensive, very quick. You could literally hire a top-tier type designer as a permanent full-time hire to work on your in-house fonts part time and then do whatever they want with the other 99.9% of their time and it would still be cheaper than what Monotype wants.

So they get deskilled which means they're no longer considered professionals but merely technicians which means they're now elligible for overtime.

I like you thinking. If more's good, then even more would be even better.

DVI is the output of TeX.

That's for mission-critical load-bearing infrastructure hidden behind modernized interfaces. Nobody has touched that script in 33 years.

Exactly. That's why they should handle device independent output.

The biggest problem is that we went to mobile-first design along with a horrible split between backend and frontend functionality. If you hit view source on a lot of sites these days a page will be just a stub for calling javascript that actually puts the html on the page. It's not so much a function of hiding what the site does as it is web developers are afraid to write html and instead punt that into their javascript framework-of-frameworks.

It's almost like Big Tech is a net drain on everyone.

They are attempting to humanize it.

He bought 37,000 acres of forest land because who wouldn't buy 37,000 acres of forest land if they had the means and opportunity to buy 37,000 acres of forest land?

I wish that were true. Unfortunately hardly a month goes by before I have to explain to someone that 1) those three little lines on top of each other aren't just a decoration but can be clicked, 2) that's where the settings live, 3) you've been in IT for 27 years but don't realize that's a thing you can click what a UX fail.

Just like people shopped at Sears up until the day the stores finally closed.

We let the wrong sort of designers do the design. The designers that simultaneously made changes under the guise of "UX" just sort of made it up as they went along without any basis in reality. That's how we got stuck with the hamburger menu.