Re: end-user font selection

"crankypuss" <…@email.thanks> wrote in message
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> I'm building a complex web application where I want the end user to be
> able to specify fonts to use for this and that.
>
> Is there a way that a server (running a PHP script) can obtain
> information about what the user's browser has available?

Like Jerry, I would have said no. However I did find this link
http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect which indicated a crafty
way of testing for a known font.

> Presumably I could unearth some information with a javascript
> client-side script, but I prefer to keep all the scripting server-side
> for now.
>
> Suggestions, guidance?

There are a handful of fonts which are supposedly available universally, and
you could limit their selection to those.

This page might help:http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm

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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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Q: end-user font selection posted by crankypuss on Tue, 12 Jan 2010