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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/28/05 01:32
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Charles wrote:
> You should use the Webcore fonts
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html#msfonts
"Should" you? Why on Earth would you want to annoy folks who have
paid good money for something better, only to find you overriding
their font choice with bog-standard MS rubbish, riddle me that?
And I see the list includes Verdana. Anyone who's read a web group
for a little while has surely met the arguments against authors
specifying Verdana. Since you claim to be in a position to offer
advice, I expect you already know the arguments, so it seems a bit
dishonest to casually recommend that page without mentioning the
caveats.
> And define also default websafe family fonts recommended by the W3C
> (serif, sans-serif, icon, monospace, etc...)
Possibly. MS even contrived to make that theoretically-good advice,
practically useless, for a while. Although things have got a bit
better since we produced these screen shots some years back:
http://css.nu/pointers/fontbug-ie.jpeg
and the others linked from the IE5 and IE4 parts of:
http://css.nu/pointers/bugs-ie.html
I think basically it's a choice between the user's selected defaults,
and the browser vendor's defaults. The user is supposed to be your
valued customer - do you trust him/her less than their browser vendor?
regards
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