Most (if not all) the fonts you specify may not be found on all systems,
particularly not non M$ ones.
Hence my comments about universally safe. If using times simply use the
stylesheet to render what _you_ want regarding size.
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP] wrote:
> 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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