David Walbert wrote:
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
My content goes something like this:
<span style="font-family:Helvetica">This is a sample of
Helvetica</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">This is a sample of Arial</span>
If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its being displayed in a
particular font, might it be better to display it in an image? Helvetica
and Arial are on almost every computer, but an image would leave no
doubt, and since the content is, essentially, the visual representation
of itself, an image would seem to me to be semantically appropriate.
Agreed.
Since the visual representation *is* the content, the font demo should
definitely be an image or other graphic object. This has the further
advantage of being UA, platform and resident-font agnostic. If the UA
is non-graphic, the user would still have the opportunity to open the
image in a viewer. There is no such option if you're dependent on style
properties or upon the font tag.
cheers,
gary
