Rick Hobson wrote:
>
> Never had this problem. This may seem obvious, but have you checked
> carefully the syntax of the stylesheet? Most odd behaviour that I've
> noticed with stylesheets usually results from a missing ; or : or these
> delimeters in the wrong places. Different browsers, as one might expect
> :-(, seem to handle stylesheet errors in different ways.
>
> Regarding specifying fonts
>
> font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
>
> and
>
> font-family: "times new roman", "times roman", times, serif;
>
> are pretty safe "universal" settings.
Maybe "Times Roman" and its ilk are "safe", but they're
also distinctly sub-optimal; Times was designed for the
narrow columns of the Times newspaper, and is far too
narrow for use in (potentially unlimited width) web pages.
Far better, IMHO, to use the sequence
Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", Georgia, Serif
The first three are actually sans serif in appearance, and
can therefore be used in a font production list terminating
in "Sans-serif" as well.
Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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