Sent by Greg Morphis on 10 February 2005 19:07
Is Tahoma a generic font?
I see MS Tahoma on the list, are these 2 the same with different names?
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:44:39 +0000, Christian Heilmann
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> Greg Morphis wrote:
>
> >Is it possible to force users of your site to a specific font?
> >If they dont have the main font in the font-family list is there a way
> >to make them install it?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> Simply put: No.
> Add Generic Font Names as the last option in your list, and you'll have
> at least a display that looks almost like yours.
> You cannot "force" visitors to do anything, this is not what the web is
> about.
>
> CSS2 has an option to embed a font, but AFAIR no browser supports it:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions
> There were some solutions in the past for IE only and Communicator only,
> but they went the way of the Dodo, too.
>
> If you want full typographical control, use Flash or images.
>
>
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