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Re: Fonts in EUForum main listing

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jan 28, 2005
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Igor Kachan wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> > Dear RDS,
> > could you consider changing the font face coding of "courier" to 
> > "courier new, courier"? The reason is that on Windows, the 'courier' font
> > is not scalable but 'courier new' is a scalable font. This is an issue
> for
> > people who use browers that permit 'zooming' such as Opera.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> It is the very tricky thing - the fonts in your browser.
> Say, Linux browsers have no Windows fonts at all, some Russian
> Windows' have no some standard Windows fonts, for example,
> there is no Russian "Comic" on Win95 etc etc etc etc.
> 
> So, this story (about font faces on WWW pages) may be endless.
> Just try to adjust your browser and OS for better viewing.

So it's not the provider's problem, it's the customer's problem, right?

I suggested "courier new,courier" so that for Windows users it would get the
Windows Courier New font and for non-Windows users it would use the Courier
font or its equivalent.

However, it might be better to use "monospace" and let the user assign 
whatever font to that symbolic font name.

So maybe "Times New Roman" should be changed to "serif", "Arial" to
"sans-serif",
etc...

Or maybe CSS is the better way to go right now. And if your Win95 browser
doesn't support CSS maybe you should "Just try to adjust your browser
and OS for better viewing".

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia