On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> I am thoroughly frosted off with all the no-hoper web sites out
> there that specify the MS fonts in <font> tags. Whatta mess!
>
> On Macs and Linux and all other non-Windoze platforms, they render
> as crappy substitution fonts. On my RH 6.1 box, they render as
> an unreadble courier font about 4 points in size <sigh>.
Smart web designers know this and cater for all walks of life. Hence
you'll find my style sheets say something like "Helvetica, Verdana, Sans"
which means at worst it'll fall back to _a_ sans serif font of some
description.
> I have found a solution: on dynamic sites I create, the font size
> for conceptual sizes like small,normal,medium,etc fontsize is based
> on what I find in the HTTP_USER_AGENT environemnt variable.
My solution is to use Nutscrape's handy "Use my default fonts, overriding
document-specific fonts". Some pages end up looking kinda funny but then
HTML was only ever intended as a semantic markup language...
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