Re: Possibly OT. IE6 and background colors..

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From: David Mark
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:28

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On Oct 26, 7:00 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Espen Koht wrote:
> > In article <1193392329.536778.128...@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> >  David Mark <dmark.cins...@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.

Off the mark actually.

>
> 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.

On Windows of course.  Users of other operating systems will likely
see a different font, which will be smaller than you intended as you
based your deezyne on 12px Verdana.

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