I am a bit curious about this.
The graphic design people I work with say it is their preferred font for
web pages. The reason being that it is "kinder" to the eye both in terms
of shape and size.
The HTML "hardcore elititst" profess that it is a useless font because
it is too big compared to other fonts.
Personally I do not care one way or the other, but I generally trust
graphic designers more than programmers and rules lawyers when it comes
to pure design.
It seems to me that the only argument against using Verdana is that a
large number of browsers do not support it and therefore it causes their
pages to render with a very small font.
Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed?
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Els wrote: Martin Bialasinski wrote:
It is OK to define Verdana as the font face, as the body font size is
set to 100%. And I have not seen a page doing this. They all scale
Verdana down.
Then you haven't looked at my site. 100% Verdana ;-)
Mine too! :)
Ståle Sæbøe wrote: Els wrote: Martin Bialasinski wrote:
It is OK to define Verdana as the font face, as the body font size is
set to 100%. And I have not seen a page doing this. They all scale
Verdana down.
Then you haven't looked at my site. 100% Verdana ;-)
Mine too! :)
But where is it?
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Ståle Sæbøe wrote: Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed?
I do not have Verdana font installed.
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Els wrote: Martin Bialasinski wrote:
It is OK to define Verdana as the font face, as the body font size is
set to 100%. And I have not seen a page doing this. They all scale
Verdana down.
Then you haven't looked at my site. 100% Verdana ;-)
Looks nice in Bitstream Vera Sans. ;)
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Blinky the Shark wrote: Ståle Sæbøe wrote:
Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed?
I do not have Verdana font installed.
I don't think anyone has it installed on a Linux machine?
At least it didn't come with the SuSE version I have here.
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Blinky the Shark wrote: Els wrote:
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
It is OK to define Verdana as the font face, as the body font size is
set to 100%. And I have not seen a page doing this. They all scale
Verdana down.
Then you haven't looked at my site. 100% Verdana ;-)
Looks nice in Bitstream Vera Sans. ;)
Firefox on Linux? ;-)
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Els wrote: Blinky the Shark wrote:
Ståle Sæbøe wrote:
Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed?
I do not have Verdana font installed.
I don't think anyone has it installed on a Linux machine?
At least it didn't come with the SuSE version I have here.
It does not come with Linux, but it (and the other Microsoft core web
fonts) can be installed, and it is legal to do so. See http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Els wrote: Blinky the Shark wrote:
Ståle Sæbøe wrote:
Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed?
I do not have Verdana font installed.
I don't think anyone has it installed on a Linux machine?
I'm not sure do you think that or not? :)
At least it didn't come with the SuSE version I have here.
I don't know why it couldn't be installed; I've not seen a reason to.
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Els wrote: Blinky the Shark wrote:
Els wrote:
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
It is OK to define Verdana as the font face, as the body font size is
set to 100%. And I have not seen a page doing this. They all scale
Verdana down.
Then you haven't looked at my site. 100% Verdana ;-)
Looks nice in Bitstream Vera Sans. ;)
Firefox on Linux? ;-)
Firefox, Konqueror, Opera.
And whatever the hell Dillo (everything is sans) and Links-Graphical
(all serif) are using. :)
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Blinky the Shark wrote: Els wrote: Blinky the Shark wrote:
Ståle Sæbøe wrote: Can anyone honestly say they do not have the Verdana font installed? I do not have Verdana font installed. I don't think anyone has it installed on a Linux machine?
I'm not sure do you think that or not? :)
I don't for about 80%, the other 20% is thinking that about 2.4% of
Linux users might like Verdana enough to install it ;-)
At least it didn't come with the SuSE version I have here.
I don't know why it couldn't be installed; I've not seen a reason to.
Me neither - Bitstream Vera Sans is good enough for me :-)
OT: Assuming the X-face is you - weren't you wearing a hat yesterday?
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