Re: Html page doesn't follow CSS sheet

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Fokke Nauta wrote:

(Addressing the other issue: The solution to the problem that Verdana
looks awful in commonly used text sizes - it was designed for use in
some specific smallish sizes - is to avoid using Verdana at all, for
copy text at least. On the web, you cannot control what actual sizes
will be used in people's browsers. Using, say
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif
without any font-size setting is a better idea.)

I can easily change the font type. But is Calibri available on every
PC? On Mac's? On Linux systems?

Surely not, it is shipped with Windows Vista and with some other software,
in addition to being available separately. But it's one of the few fonts
that can be expected to be an improvement over each system's default
sans-serif font.

If Calibri is not available, the browser uses the generic sans-serif font.
Whatever that might be, it's most probably better (on the Web) than
Verdana. I would normally expect it to be Arial, or something better.

But if you specify the font size, that means that the lay-out can't
change and will allways be persistant. If the font size changes, so
the layout will.

The font size may and will change whatever you do, and so will the layout.


OK, thanks.
I learn a lot here. I will change the font type and use percentages instead
of sizes.

Fokke


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