this describes and ilustrates a problem where only including a generic font-family in a stylesheet may lead to unreadible pages:
Subject: Re: Enforcing my user styles into elements with classes? From: "Kenneth J. Cooper" <ReplyT@Group.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:04:52 -0500 Message-ID: <t5n2r96lb6d3be@corp.supernews.com> Everything on this page http://www.w3.org/XML/ for example, except the graphics are unreadable to me. The fonts are squeezed together and bold. I have no problems anywhere but W3C, and a very small percentage of other sites.
Subject: Re: Enforcing my user styles into elements with classes? From: "Kenneth J. Cooper" <ReplyT@Group.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:40:18 -0500 Message-ID: <t5nburt5va6a09@corp.supernews.com> Michael, I looked at the style sheet (<http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/base.css> ) and found what my problem is: body { font-family: sans-serif; } If I change this to Arial or some other font then I have no problem. It appears that I may be missing a font to display this font-family properly. Now what?
Subject: Re: Enforcing my user styles into elements with classes? From: "Kenneth J. Cooper" <ReplyT@Group.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:05:18 -0500 Message-ID: <t5sil5svnv5m12@corp.supernews.com> "Johannes Koch" <koch@pixelpark.com> wrote > sans-serif is a generic font family. _Please_ tell us which browser > doesn't know what to do with this generic font family. I use IE5.5 SP1. I hardly think this is the problem though. -- Kenneth J. Cooper
the above screenshot was taken without any user-StyleSheet enabled:
