Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 06/06/05 21:11

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Toby Inkster wrote:

> According to Codestyle's survey, "Verdana" is installed on 94% of Windows
> systems, 92% of Mac systems and 53% of Unix systems.

So the problem explored at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
is even *more* prevalent than I assumed.

That gives us yet more reason *not* to specify Verdana in an author
stylesheet.

I'm sure it's a perfectly fine choice for an individual to make in the
privacy of their own browser, and at a size of their choosing (as long
as misguided authors don't go and overrule it...)

I'm talking basically about body text here, mind you.

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