web-safe fonts & characters 2014

[Mike Wickham]

I can tell you one font that is NOT Web-safe: Helvetica. I recommend 
that you keep it out of your Web documents. There is a Windows bug that 
causes IE to display Web pages as blank when Helvetica is installed on 
the computer and listed as the first font in a page's CSS. When I was 
unfortunate enough to have problems displaying Web pages, it took me 
quite a while to find the solution online. If you search Google for 
"Helvetica blank pages IE," you'll see all kinds of information on it.

Mike Wickham