8.6. Standard and Nonstandard Font Families
Earlier, when I discussed the font-family property , I indicated that a deeper discussion of the standard versus nonstandard fonts was requisite to a complete understanding of the issue of font families. This section provides that background.
What do I mean by standard fonts? There is no CSS standard or specification that determines what fonts will always be available on a user's system. It's also impossible to make any real assumptions about font availability on user systems that won't encounter some exceptions. In fact, there is not one font that is installed in common by default on both Macintosh and Windows operating system based computers. Not one. Can you believe that, after all these years? ...
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