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Posted by Neredbojias on 05/06/06 04:02
To further the education of mankind, Kim Andrι Akerψ
<kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com> vouchsafed:
> Since you asked: "courier*" (or at least "courier new"), "arial*",
> "comic sans*", "times new roman", "trebuchet", "impact" and "verdana"
> are among the fonts in your list that are Windows-specific. IIRC, Mac
> and Linux, to mention two of the more popular platforms, do not have
> these, unless you find a version of the font for your platform to
> manually download and install.
>
> The only truly "web-safe" fonts are: serif, sans-serif, cursive,
> fantasy and monospace; these are generic font families, and will use
> the font that's used in the browser settings for these generic font
> types.
>
> You're free to use whatever font you like, but as a rule of thumb,
> always provide a list of possible font families that end with a generic
> font family as a fallback in case the user doesn't have any of the
> fonts you've specified.
Very well put. I was going to reply, but you said it better.
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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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