With the news that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 has – finally – fallen to 1% of U.S. browser share, the modern internet is now turning to face a new problem from the folks down in Redmond.
Until recently, the technology to include fonts and also the permission to use them has prevented web sites from deviating beyond generic typefaces like “sans-serif” or “serif”. To get around this, many people banked on the popularity of Microsoft Windows to leverage their default font library. Which eventually came to include the famous and well entrenched “Verdana” font.
