Re: font specification in CSS1

Jon Bosak wrote:
> If you don't standardize this, the behavior you're looking for is
not
> possible to achieve.  The comparison with paintings and books is
> exactly right.  You can't classify them.  But if you don't classify
> them, you can't find them.  It's a good thing the librarians
ignored
> the fact that you can't precisely classify books and went ahead and
> precisely classified them anyway.

Books and paintings are classified by arbitrary types in a general
sense, and sometimes debatably so. In a precise sense they are
classified by title and author.

David Perrell