On 2008/02/08 23:49 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: > If you add helvetica to that font family that caters to most Mac and > Linux users as well. > font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Helvetica, while very nice on Mac, is quite the opposite on Linux. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-helvetica.html#bitmap On those newer Linux systems that actually have Helvetica installed, it will only show up if you request "adobe helvetica", which is a bitmap font available in limited sizes that are poorly suited for web page screen display even when the size is actually correct. In most other cases, there will be no Tahoma or Arial, and the fontconfig fallback or alias will usually be DejaVu Sans or Bitstream Vera Sans, both of which are equivalent in size and appearance to Verdana, larger in apparent size than Tahoma, Arial & Mac Helvetica. If you want to be nice to Linux by having its users see as close as possible what Mac & M$ users see, and you're applying primarily to lower case rather than vast expanses of caps, go with the following instead: font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, 'liberation sans', geneva, 'dejavu sans condensed', sans-serif. -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
