Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Lauriston
o:techwr-l-bounces+gregory.sweet=health.ny@lists.techwr-l.com] >> On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston >> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 2:35 PM >> To: TECHWR-L Writing; framers@lists.frameusers.com >> Subject: web-safe fonts & characters 2014 >> >> Has anyone see

Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

2014-08-06 Thread Joe Malin
Wait, isn't this an argument *for* using Helvetica? After all, seeing a blank page would encourage people to stop using IE. Just kidding, although I am proud to say that I haven't used IE in many, many years and have no intention of changing that behavior. It's unfortunate that a variety of circum

Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

2014-08-05 Thread Mike Wickham
I can tell you one font that is NOT Web-safe: Helvetica. I recommend that you keep it out of your Web documents. There is a Windows bug that causes IE to display Web pages as blank when Helvetica is installed on the computer and listed as the first font in a page's CSS. When I was unfortunate e

web-safe fonts & characters 2014

2014-08-05 Thread Robert Lauriston
Has anyone seen an authoritative reference for this? If I'm not writing man pages or working with some legacy CMS or help authoring tool, I use curved quotes, em and en dashes, and ellipses, but I can't cite any authority for doing so. I've yet to succeed in finding a web-safe monofont with a sla