Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:45, Felix Miata wrote:
> > No, you should put sans-serif first, and leave out arial and helvetica
> > and verdana. That way, whatever the user has decided is the best
> > sans-serif is the one that will be used.
>
> I agree, and in fact if you refer to my earlier post you'll see I
> suggested "sans, verdana, helvetica" as my preferred ordering. Though
> you're right I should've said sans-serif, not sans, as sans is
> deprecated...oops.
I wrote to "leave out arial and helvetica and verdana" because to put
anything at all AFTER sans-serif is 100% wasted bandwidth. If the
visitor has any sans-serif fonts installed at all, which he will
99.99999999% of the time, whichever his is configured to use by default
WILL be what is used when sans-serif is the first listed. Those listed
after sans-serif will never be selected by the browser on account of
their inclusion either in the css or the <font> tag, because either:
1-they aren't present, and so weren't found among available sans-serif
choices, or 2-are present, but were first found as possible sans-serif
choices.
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