- From: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:29:02 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Christoph Päper: > Bertilo Wennergren: > > Actually I meant leaving out "font-family" completely. Some > > browsers have hard-coded settings for the generics, that the users > > cannot change, and all too often those hard-wired settings are > > pretty awful > And those browsers (which?) use pretty fonts for text without any > font-family set? NOIB hard to believe. If you don't specify any font (no generic, nothing), then the browser will use the font setting the user has chosen. Those settings are often very easy to change for the users, and they will be as pretty as every user wishes. In e.g. Mozilla you can also change the settings for the generics, but in e.g. Microsoft Explorer or older Netscape browsers, there is no way to choose what should happen when the CSS says "font-family: serif" or "font-family: monospace". Some font chosen by the programmers will be used, and that's it. That's why I believe that generic font-families can be harmful (against the received cargo-cult knowledge that says that something will go very wrong if we don't always specify some generic). -- Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net> <http://www.bertilow.com>
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