designer wrote:
> I was 'brought up' to believe that, when specifying fonts, one should
> quote a family such as 'Verdana, Arial, Sans Serif'. This means, of
> course, that if a user doesn't have Verdana, the page will select the
> next available font on his/her system.
> However, when I validate CSS, it tells me that I should only do this as
> a last resort, So my questions are: 'what is the first resort' these
> days? What is the standards way? What do you guys do?
Actually what looks like the problem probably being reported by the
validator is that 'Verdana, Arial, Sans Serif' has no fallback font.
"Sans Serif" would be a family name, not a fallback font. Sans-serif is
a fallback font.
Another possibility is to specify no font family at all, thus allowing
visitors to see their actual preference. Or, specify merely sans-serif
or serif as your basic preference, which allows visitors to see their
sans-serif or serif preference. CSS is supposed to suggest styles to
apply, not enforce them above the wishes of users.
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