But you have no control over what the user has downloaded, which is the
problem. Besides, no one should use a serif font for rendering a large
body of text, they are _all_ unsuitable. Sans-serif fonts are generally
accepted as much more readable and "user-friendly".
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Philip TAYLOR [NTS10/O-NT] wrote:
> No matter how big you make Times Roman, Rick, it will
> never affect its aspect ratio. It is simply a narrow
> font, and very unsuitable for use on web pages. Microsoft
> went to a lot of trouble to commission the design of
> fonts for web usage, and the four that I suggested are
> all freely available for download and use, regardless
> of the platform on which they will finally be deployed.
>
> ** Phil.
> --------
> Rick Hobson wrote:
> >
> > 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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