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Although more and more techies are flocking to non-MicroSoft browsers, the bulk of ordinary users are sticking with good old, Windows-bundled IE, and a little setting in the accessibility menu can disable fonts specified by web pages. What are the chances of anyone checking that box? I don't really know, but I did for a long time, before I started doing any web developement - the standard font I chose, Trebuchet, and its consistent application in web documents, I felt was easier on my eyes. I don't suggest that web developers don't need to pay any attention to fonts, but rather that the attention being paid to them by the CSS2 specifications developers might just be a little overweeningly minute.
Over specification of font charateristics limits the utility of the document. Relative text size is a useful presentation aid, font famility slightly less so.
You can easily violate disability access provisions for the partially sighted as well.
Trebuschet probably won't matter but if your document only works with a small class of font characteristics, you've shot yourself in the foot.
You can easily violate disability access provisions for the partially sighted as well.
Trebuschet probably won't matter but if your document only works with a small class of font characteristics, you've shot yourself in the foot.
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