From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 22:47:21 CST
Erik van der Poel <erik at vanderpoel dot org> wrote:
> In theory, the text should be displayed no matter what fonts are
> specified in the style sheets. If I recall correctly, the CSS spec
says
> that the browser should try the fonts listed in the property in the
> order found there, and may then fall back to other fonts in the
system.
Most style sheets end their font-family lists with "serif" or
"sans-serif," and I think if it gets to that point, the browser can be
considered to have done its job if it picks (respectively) any old serif
or sans-serif font its heart desires.
The style sheet applied to the Deseret "What Is Unicode?" page includes
the following:
P {
COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffffe
}
Since every Windows system has Arial, and (IIRC) every Mac has Geneva,
no browser on either of these platforms ever gets a chance to choose a
font with better coverage.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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