[thelist] Verdana Defence - was CSS Validation

[kris burford]

>>"Verdana appears to be the best overall font choice. Besides being the 
>>most preferred, it was read fairly quickly and was perceived as being legible."
>
>Which is a good argument for using it either:
>
>* In a document style sheet, so long as you don't mind things looking 
>unusually large
>
>or
>
>* In a user style sheet, so long as you don't mind putting your 
>preferences above the poor designer who suffered so hard in picking a nice 
>font for his page. >:)

the article (http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html) 
compares various fonts and then comments on how much bigger verdana is, 
"particularly so in comparison to Times New Roman". um, a font-family that 
contains both serif and sans-serif fonts would be rather unusual, so i 
don't see the point in this particular example. okay, verdana's bigger than 
arial but the majority of pc's will have it (it comes with most ms 
products/os) and it's also bundled with OSX, internet explorer for the mac 
and office for the mac...

so i went hunting through sites that i thought would be on the case if it 
*really* was something to avoid:

alistapart : font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Bitstream Vera Sans", verdana, 
lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
glish.com: font-family: 'trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
evolt: font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;

k