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No, I'm afraid that's not really the case.

This box (running IBM's OS-2 Warp 4) does have that font, but I think I went out of my way to install a bunch of Microsoft TrueType fonts here (IBM did not distribute them), and it also seems to have some of the other common Windows fonts (Arial, Courier, etc.).

However, my various Linux boxes (which are running Puppy 2.02, DSL 3.01, and Mandrake 8.2) do not have the fonts you mention elsewhere in this thread. All of them are using either Seamonkey or Firefox as a browser and are quite internet-capable.

My Palm m105 running PalmOS 3.52 is also capable of surfing the net (using a V.90 clipmodem and a very nice little browser called Xiino), and it doesn't the Comic Sans font present on it, either. :-)

I tend to override site fonts with my own local ones anyway because of problems such as this, but it's dangerous for ANY web site creator to buttume the existence of specific fonts on a client box.

-- Mainframe-Unix bit twiddler by day, OS-2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night. WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.