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> I beg you, please don't hardcode Courier New!
Hear, hear!
> Not only is it the worst possible monospaced screen font, it is also
> Microsoft specific (in spite of it finding its way onto Tony's Linux
> box). (Even Microsoft has seen the light, and changed the default
> monospaced font to Consolas in Windows Vista.)
>
> The proper thing to do is to only list "font-family: monospace".
> That will use the default monospaced font on any platform, which is
> Courier New by default in any case on current Windows browsers. Only
> people who have consciously chosen to change their monospaced font
> (and people on non-Windows platforms) will not see Courier New.
It's not just the proper way, it's the first thing discussed in the
specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-specification
Again
...
I await a decision
Regards
Edd
