Paul Bennett wrote: >>And Times New Roman is the default font by browsers, if I remember correctly? >>At least >>IE's default font. > > > I may be wrong (it happened once before ;) ) but I would think that the > browser would use the default SYSTEM serif font. Seeing as this (for Windows) > is Times New Roman, that's what you'll see on Windows machines... > > Welcoming feedback from those more 'in the know' > > Paul
IIRC, you are correct. Although this by many different things. Mainly - the theme that you are using. If someone installs a different theme, that may change the default font. In linux we the same sort of system, except that what is the default font is less common because of the gtk and qt, and the fact that things are vey easy to theme. For example in my gtk theme in linux it defaults to some sans serif font (bitstream vera sans, I think). Then there's the Macs which are a whole 'nother ball game. At any rate, the most important thing is that you can't rely on anything. There is no way to reliably tell the fonts on your users machines or seamlessly let them download fonts you want them to use, because the people who are in charge of this sort of thing are too greedy to be able work together and create a standard (and the w3 couldn't care less about presentation). Another really annoying thing is that the fonts are not very consistant in there sizing. So sometimes I stuble on sites that have really large or unreadably small font's because of this. So the story is that you can't expect pixel perfection. HTML and CSS were not designed for that, if you need that sort of thing I think the PNG format would be good for you ;) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
