Common to all machine Fonts?

[edro]

Is there a list of Fonts that most web designers always use because they know that all browsers support them?

Anyone have a list? I know that basically anything that comes standard on a Win98 build would probably be standard, but I dunno how that works on Linux or browsers other than IE.

Thanks!

 

[zimu]

you can embed fonts into a webpage.

the fonts that dreamweaver shows are basically the machine independent fonts.

 

[techfuzz]

Verdana and Georgia are two fonts created specifically for electronic media. All Windows based computers will have these two fonts and I'm almost 100% positive so will unix-based machines.

techfuzz

 

[edro]

I am wanting to change the fonts to a few of my pages, but I don't understand the whole Font Family structure and what fonts are included in all browsers and so fourth. Some of the fonts I try work fine, some do not... it is hit or miss.

Here is the line I am changing:
<font size="5" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

If I change it to "Small Fonts", it works fine (<font size="5" face="Small Fonts">)....... but if I change it to Caflisch Script or Cursiva with the "cursive" font family (<font size="5" face="Corsiva, cursive">, it doesn't work.

 

[techfuzz]

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-family-prop

Check out the CSS definition of the font element. That explains a lot about what the font face does.

techfuzz