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Article #332Re: New PDA Search Engine
From: Rowland McDonnell
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:12
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:12
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Eric Lindsay's spam trap <spam2001@ericlindsay.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Use of Verdana as a default font also seems to me unwise in the
> long term. I know it is a great readable font (it was specially
> designed to be readable in small type sizes). However, it is
> totally different in size to all other fonts. If a browser
> doesn't have it (and remember it is a Windows specific font)
I've got it here on my entirely MS-free MacOS X 10.2.1 Mac. But it's
not the sort of thing you can assume is available everywhere - much
better to specify Helvetica, to take something off the top of my head -
Arial's metrics match, and pretty much everyone's got Helvetica or Arial
one way or another.
[snip]
Rowland.
(who thinks Helvetica is spectacularly ugly, but it's plain, ubiquitous,
and easy enough to read on a small screen - it'll do for this job)
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