Re: what do you think?

>I keep seeing this "advice" given whenever someone specifies Arial.  The
>font isn't that uncommon among Macs.  Any Mac owner who has installed a
>graphics program, or a Microsoft one, should end up with the Arial font
>in their fonts folder.  My Mac, and any other I've used, has had the
>font, and I've designed pages that use it.

However, UNIX users may not have it. It's best to specify several font
faces, in decreasing order of font specificity, to get the most possible
folks viewing the pages the way you intended them.

For instance, my site is chock full of <font face="verdana, arial,
helvetica, sans"> Verdana is the preferred font, but if they are a Windows
user, they'll have Arial. Mac and UNIX will normally have Helvetica, but if
not, I tell the browser to use it's default san serif font. I've actually
seen instances, and heard more, where the absence of that last command has
ended up with the browser using it's default font, which is, of course,
Times. That doesn't go with my sites -- though I have a customer it works
nicely for ;-)

Anyway, I'm wildly off topic, but felt it necessary and germane....


Best,
Scott Temaat
SOHOWeb Technologies, LLC 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOHO Web: The Professional's Resource 
We need you! SOHO Advisors are needed in every area of starting and running
a successful small / home-based business. Everyone is an expert in
something -- share your expertise with other SOHO Professionals today!
http://SOHOweb.net

HTML: hwg-critique mailing list archives, maintained by Webmaster @ IWA