Posted by Gordon Burditt on 12/18/60 11:50

>Have a customer that wants a specific font included in her web page
>design; Comic Sans MS. This is one of the MS core fonts. The problem
>I have is that some of the *nix browsers do NOT include these fonts by
>default.
>
>http://www.diamondvet.com/test renders those fonts correctly using an
>XP box. After I installed those fonts on my machine, firefox and
>mozilla both rendered them correctly.

And did you violate copyright laws by doing so?

>So here is the question:
>
>How do I get whatever surfer to download the proper font file? Sure,

Death threats? Making sure they can't use the site without it?
That tends to drive away customers. Sending them a virus to install
it? Probably works well on XP; harder on other systems.

>it can be an option given to the surfer, but how can I find out what
>fonts are available, then show the surfer a message or something? Is
>this an automagic thing? Am I going about this all wrong?

Keep in mind that asking users to fiddle with their software just
to use your site SCREAMS a number of things you don't really want
attributed to your site:

VIRUS!!

SPYWARE!!

MALWARE!!

Insecure!! and someplace I really don't want to trust with my credit
card number.

There's no point in even trying since it won't work on my system anyway,
so I'll buy elsewhere.

Gordon L. Burditt

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