Garnier Garnier wrote:
> Hello Listers,
>
> I have a question:
>
> Which is the ideal font that is supported by all browsers, and on Windows and
> Linux?
>
> The html page that I am working on does not use any specific fonts or size.
> The Heading uses the H2 tag and the body uses the body tag. Depending on the
> browser used to open the page it would pick up the default font on both OS.
> Now most system requirements at our end have changed on Linux due to which
> the display is normal on Windows but not on Linux. On Linux the font size and
> type has changed. The size is 70 and bold.
>
> B/R
> Garnier
>
For the browser part of your questions, you are probably aware of the
vendor/user defaults for a particular user agent (browser) For example,
for the FF 3.5 browser on Windows XP, the res\html.css file in the
installation folder has its default settings. Other browsers work similarly.
As a rule, I use a reset CSS file in my PHP/XHTML websites to reset some
of those default settings--using the following Tripoli CSS definitions:
Gary
|/*
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering.
Copyright (C) 2007 David Hellsing
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
* {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 1em;
outline: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
code, kbd, samp, pre, tt, var, textarea, input, select, isindex,
listing, xmp, plaintext {
white-space: normal;
font-size: 1em;
font: inherit;
}
dfn, i, cite, var, address, em {
font-style: normal;
}
th, b, strong, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-weight: normal;
}
a, img, a img, iframe, form, fieldset, abbr, acronym, object,
applet, table {
border: none;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
caption, th, td, center {
vertical-align: top;
text-align: left;
}
body {
background: white;
line-height: 1;
color: black;
}
q {
quotes: "" "";
}
ul, ol, dir, menu {
list-style: none;
}
sub, sup {
vertical-align: baseline;
}
a {
color: inherit;
}
hr {
display: none;
}
font {
color: inherit !important;
font: inherit !important;
color: inherit !important;
}
marquee {
overflow: inherit !important;
-moz-binding: none;
}
blink {
text-decoration: none;
}
nobr {
white-space: normal;
}
|
