Re: Possibly OT. IE6 and background colors..

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:00

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Espen Koht wrote:
> In article <1193392329.536778.128210@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>  David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Verdana is not appropriate for a Web page.  12px Verdana is even less
>> appropriate.  Verdana is a relatively large font, which may or may not
>> be legible at 12px. 
> 
> Care to make this argument more coherent? Verdana is designed for 
> legibility on computer screens and by all accounts achieves this, even 
> at small sizes.

Exactly.

When looking for a legible small no serif font, we went through a load 
of options testing against IE5,6,7 Firefox and safari, and that 
particular one came up looking decent.

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:00:01 +0100
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