On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:43:40 -0000, Richard Ishida wrote:
> In any case you should always finish a font-family declaration with
> 'serif' or 'sans-serif' in this situation. Then if none of the fonts
> you indicated are on the user's system, a font that they do have will
> be used.
Caveat alert!
Errr, sort of an inverse caveat, if you take this too far.
I had a site where I thought 'I do not care what font this part appears
in, let them choose which serif font it has and used:
#block {font-family: serif: }
Bad move :(
Some versions of IE (some V6 variant IIRC) showed a lovely set of black
square blocks instead of text. :(
We checked the browser and it didn't have a bizarre selection as its
default font.
Changing the declaration to a simple:
#block {font-family: Times, serif: }
fixed the problem.
FYI
Lea
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Lea de Groot
Elysian Systems - I Understand the Internet <http://elysiansystems.com/>
Search Engine Optimisation, Usability, Information Architecture, Web
Design
Brisbane, Australia
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