Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 12/20/06 14:39

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:40:50 +0000, Toby Inkster
<usenet200612@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>John Hosking wrote:
>
>> body {margin-left: 0px; font-family: "Lucida Sans", Verdana; }
>>
>> What happens if a visitor lacks both Lucida Sans and Verdana? Try adding
>> sans-serif as the last family. (And drop Verdana.)
>
>Or:
>
> font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
> "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;
>

How about just

font-family: sans-serif;

Then you are guaranteed that the person browsing will see either the
sans-serif font he or she prefers, or at least one they don't object to
strongly enough to learn how to change the default.

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