On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> Can't imagine this happening but Microsoft do have somewhere on their site
> a web font pack with a bunch of their fonts designed for the web.  Things
> like Verdana and Comic Sans.  No idea where on their site though.

Off topic, but of concern ...

<rant>

I am thoroughly frosted off with all the no-hoper web sites out
there that specify the MS fonts in <font> tags. Whatta mess!

On Macs and Linux and all other non-Windoze platforms, they render
as crappy substitution fonts. On my RH 6.1 box, they render as
an unreadble courier font about 4 points in size <sigh>.

Of course the other bitch about Windoze-only web sites is they
set <font size=2> to cater to Windoze browsers tendency to
have the default font set REALLY REALLY big.

I have found a solution: on dynamic sites I create, the font size
for conceptual sizes like small,normal,medium,etc fontsize is based
on what I find in the HTTP_USER_AGENT environemnt variable.

</rant>



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