Posted by Gerry White on 09/28/05 10:25

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.WNT.4.63.0509272317520.1636@ZORIN...
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> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Charles wrote:
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>> You should use the Webcore fonts
>> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html#msfonts
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> 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
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> 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?
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> regards

most browsers default to a serif'd font - which is considerably less usable
/ readable / accessible than a serif'd font (until we all have 300 dpi
monitors) as such I think its a bad idea NOT to spefict a font ...

You can speficy several (a family) and most of your users will have arial
installed, which are good choices, followed by the generic sans serif as
mentioned in other peoples posts ...

Drop the font size down by one - but make sure its not fixed for most (body)
text, as test have shown this is the most conjusive to reading on the web.

G

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