oh, that makes sense - so for our Web Apps we're pretty much stuck to common denominator fonts for the browsers then?
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Robby Russell <[email protected]>wrote: > > Greg, > > You might want to read up a bit more on how fonts are used on the web. > If you declare specific fonts to be used in your CSS, it only tells > the browser to try and use it. If the person browsing the > site/application doesn't have the font specific installed on their > application, then they it'll default to a font it does have. Here is > some information that explains it. > > * http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#q1 > > Hope that helps.. > > Robby > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Greg Hauptmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Any pointers where to start digging re how I could use some fonts > > (e.g. http://www.iconian.com/c.html ) in my Rails web site? > > I develop on Mac, but deploy to a Linux box. Does this mean I have to > work > > out how to install fonts on both operating system I guess? Would I then > > only have to refer to the fonts in the CSS style sheet such that my RoR > > application beyond this would need no further modification? > > > > -- > > Greg > > http://blog.gregnet.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Robby Russell > Chief Evangelist, Partner > > PLANET ARGON, LLC > design // development // hosting w/Ruby on Rails > > http://www.planetargon.com/ > http://www.robbyonrails.com/ > aim: planetargon > > +1 503 445 2457 > +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] > +1 815 642 4068 [fax] > > > > -- Greg http://blog.gregnet.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
