Re: Unknown Selector

gg wrote:

* html body { font: normal 8.5pt Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; }

...and while we're discussing it, google for the near-daily postings on
why you should not assign font sizes in points or pixels, nor use
Verdana.

* html body { font: 100% sans-serif; }

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

gg wrote:

* html body { font: normal 8.5pt Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; }

...and while we're discussing it, google for the near-daily postings on
why you should not assign font sizes in points or pixels, nor use
Verdana.

* html body { font: 100% sans-serif; }

Why should one not use Verdana? I was told by someone else not to use
Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana. I use Trebuchet - is
there a problem with that?

CM

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In article <e6a5f7$228$1 (AT) ctb-nnrp2 (DOT) saix.net>,
pecan <pecan.nospam (AT) iafrica (DOT) com> wrote:

I was told by someone else not to use
Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana.

Me, the very reverse. What is the problem with Comic Sans? (I ask
because a client for a site I am making wants it and I am
thinking of it (a bit reluctantly).

[Note, the question is not about what fallbacks to provide if
folk do not get the Comic Sans font. This bit is easy.]

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dorayme wrote:

In article <e6a5f7$228$1 (AT) ctb-nnrp2 (DOT) saix.net>,
pecan <pecan.nospam (AT) iafrica (DOT) com> wrote:

I was told by someone else not to use
Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana.

Me, the very reverse. What is the problem with Comic Sans? (I ask
because a client for a site I am making wants it and I am
thinking of it (a bit reluctantly).

[Note, the question is not about what fallbacks to provide if
folk do not get the Comic Sans font. This bit is easy.]

I have no idea. I was told it was too unpredictable. My entire site
was comic sans, and 'sans' CSS I had some recoding to do. I was told
professional web designers avoided it like the plague.

I must say I prefer the result: look at my site:
http://www.africanbush.co.za
I found that comic sand made it a bit more difficult to read, and
resizing for headers was very unpredictable.

CM

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pecan wrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
gg wrote:

* html body { font: normal 8.5pt Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; }

...and while we're discussing it, google for the near-daily postings on
why you should not assign font sizes in points or pixels, nor use
Verdana.

* html body { font: 100% sans-serif; }

Why should one not use Verdana? I was told by someone else not to
use Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

I use Trebuchet - is there a problem with that?

Trebuchet MS. That's ok; it's not an oversized font like Verdana. I use
it as well.

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In article
<wA1ig.151717$Fs1.134998 (AT) bgtnsc05-news (DOT) ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Why should one not use Verdana? I was told by someone else not to
use Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

I use Trebuchet - is there a problem with that?

Trebuchet MS. That's ok; it's not an oversized font like Verdana. I use
it as well.

I notice one problem about Comic Sans, it takes up more room,
especially vertically, which adds up to quite a bit on a web
page. Trebuchet MS does not have this fault, and is also not too
stuffy, a bit informal... mmm... this might be my recommendation
instead of Comic (which is a favourite of this client I have. She
won't argue now I have an argument about space! Considering she
wants the site to be as accessible as possible)

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dorayme

dorayme wrote:

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Why should one not use Verdana? I was told by someone else not to
use Comic Sans, but have heard nothing about verdana.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

I use Trebuchet - is there a problem with that?

Trebuchet MS. That's ok; it's not an oversized font like Verdana. I
use it as well.

I notice one problem about Comic Sans, it takes up more room,
especially vertically, which adds up to quite a bit on a web page.
Trebuchet MS does not have this fault, and is also not too stuffy, a
bit informal... mmm... this might be my recommendation instead of
Comic (which is a favourite of this client I have. She won't argue
now I have an argument about space! Considering she wants the site to
be as accessible as possible)

Comic Sans might (well, for some degree of might) be ok on a personal
site for headings or whatnot, but not for content text.

I'll use Trebuchet MS for Windows PCs, or just sans-serif, and Georgia
for serif. Georgia seems to work ok for an <h1> too, along with
Trebuchet MS as content.

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