Brent Eades wrote:
> 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?"
Doesn't it really make more sense to just use the <font face="sans-serif">
rather than to include the Arial or Helvetica. My experience is that it
works fine without the specific font names, at least it seems to in the 4.x
browsers.
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Al Futrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.louisville.edu/~awfutr01/>
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY - USA
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