>I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web
>page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font.
>When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small,
>hard to read Times. When I view this page in Windows, either netscape
>or IE, it looks correct. I have my netscape preferences to use
>page-specified fonts. I can view other pages which use Verdana, and
>they look fine. What else can I check? The page is
>http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.htm if anyone is interested
>in looking at the HTML. Thanks,
>Hidong
Welcome to the world of what you CAN'T do with HTML. As you have discovered,
you can't just use whatever font you want. BTW, the font you saw with Netscape
under Linux/Unix was Courier, not TimesRoman.
You have three computer platforms to worry about, Linux/Unix, Mac and Windoze.
You have to work with the DEFAULT fonts that are on each platform, not what
may have been loaded by the user. Guess what... there are ZERO fonts that
are common on all three platforms. The problem is with MicroSh!t, as they
were too cheap, back in the original Windoze days, to pay the licensing fees
for the fonts. So, they redid them and renamed them. Helvetica became
Arial. Times-Roman became Times. Courier is the only one that stay Courier
and it is NOT a font for general reading.
That means you cannot use fonts line Verdana because that is a MicroSh!t
only font and you cannot expect it to be loaded on Linux/Unix. The only
font that you can use across the board does require a particular setup in
the HTML code. The font is Arial/Helvetica. It requires the following
HTML code:
<FONT FACE="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">text goes here</FONT>
Yep, you MUST put both fonts in the statement. Helvetica should go first
as it is the native X font and can render better than Arial (if both are
loaded on a Linux box).
But, as pointed out by several web experts, one shouldn't use the FONT
tag, but should use style sheets instead. Why? Because it allows users
to override the fonts in style sheets. Users may need to override fonts
if they have visual problems and must use larger font sizes on their screens.
The font size should also be done using style sheets. That way the visually
impared can change to a font face they can see better and chose a size that
makes it easier to see.
I am slowly changing my pages over to style sheets for this reason.
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