[thelist] forcing a website font

[John C Bullas]

At 01:13 14/03/2004, you wrote
>I can't recall exactly how weft works, (because it turned out for our 
>project PDF was a better solution so I've had no reason to look at weft 
>again) but I do recall that there was some css you had to use. So, why not 
>just use css to do what you are looking for. Set the alternate fonts first 
>in your css, then use the weft css after. Browsers that do not understand 
>the weft instructions will ignore them and default to the original css styles.

you might argue that if you have to force a font itmight be one of the more 
exotic ones and one NOT best suited for screen display or generally easy to 
read

Better might be to use header graphics generated using that font as headers 
for pages in the nearest "standard" font?

FB


>If that's not gonna do it, just look for some javascript to do browser 
>detection in general, then document.write() out the weft related html 
>instructions. You should have no trouble finding general browser detection 
>scripts out there.