On 6 Nov 98, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> Thanks for your comments. But it seems pretty useless to me to put
> sans-serif in the font face tag; if a system doesn't have Arial or
> Helvetica it doesn't seem likely it will have any other suitable font,
> since those are so basic. Or is this more targeted at non-PC non-Mac
> systems, say UNX boxes?
I agree, in practice I don't suppose that there will be many instances
where a user doesn't have, say, Arial, Helvetica or Geneva on his or her
system. And some cut of Times Roman for a generic serif font.
But it's certainly in keeping with the (would-be) cross-platform nature of
the Web to give authors mechanisms for having some control over page
display, *without* requiring them to know about OS-specific issues such
as "what fonts do Mac/Win31/95/98/NT/Unix/Linux users usually have
installed?"
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