, August 05, 2014 2:35 PM
To: TECHWR-L Writing; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: web-safe fonts characters 2014
Has anyone seen an authoritative reference for this?
If I'm not writing man pages or working with some legacy CMS or help
authoring tool, I use curved quotes, em and en dashes
Wait, isn't this an argument *for* using Helvetica? After all, seeing a
blank page would encourage people to stop using IE.
Just kidding, although I am proud to say that I haven't used IE in many,
many years and have no intention of changing that behavior. It's
unfortunate that a variety of
Has anyone seen an authoritative reference for this?
If I'm not writing man pages or working with some legacy CMS or help
authoring tool, I use curved quotes, em and en dashes, and ellipses,
but I can't cite any authority for doing so.
I've yet to succeed in finding a web-safe monofont with a
I can tell you one font that is NOT Web-safe: Helvetica. I recommend
that you keep it out of your Web documents. There is a Windows bug that
causes IE to display Web pages as blank when Helvetica is installed on
the computer and listed as the first font in a page's CSS. When I was
unfortunate
