fonts and browser support

riv_

A recent topic in this forum prompted this post. You know, I often have a hard time deciding which fonts to use on my pages because I'm not always sure which ones are going to be supported.
I know that some are supported by certain browsers and others are not (of course!) and that there is a way to make special fonts available... but I don't know what that is.
SO would you please share your knowledge with me? What fonts are supported by which browsers? Where do I learn more about this? (The serif/sans link on the other thread was interesting, thankyou!) Where do I find more fonts? How do I make non-supported fonts available on my pages? Anything else you eant to tell me?

Marston

It has nothing to do with the browsers at all. It just has to do with the fonts people have on their computers.

Billwaa

I had renctly looked at a web template, they upload the font they use in the templat in the same folder as the web. Maybe you can use some script to load the font from the net?

Marston

http://www.spoono.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=19

Hope that helps Smile

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riv_

Of course it's not the browser! Embarassed

Thanks, Marston, for the link, re: embedding fonts. That's cool!
What about defaults?
I've notices different default fonts and font-sizes in different browsers. How do i not know where to find out about default browser settings??

Marston

I don't know if there's a default font face, but there is a default font size. If you use HTML font control tags, such as

riv_

Yeah, so I've been using relative styles in my CSS to control my font size. (100%, etc)
Why does IE insist on showing it so much bigger than FF and Opera?
Which one should I code for?
(I suspect IE because Opera and FF users can resize their text in their view menu?????)
Any insights?