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You have something like Tahoma or Verdana for your main font that most of the text here displays in. However, if you're using a computer without the main font (for example, most Linux boxen) it will instead display in something dodgy like Times New Roman.

I recommend you tweak the font list in the CSS so it at least displays a sans-serif font in Linux (the preferred one is Luxi Sans, which comes with RH9, followed by "sans-serif", which displays nicely on older systems with awful font hinting).

My preffered "font-family" directive is:

font-family: tahoma, verdana, luxi sans, sans-serif, arial, helvetica;

I love the "Tahoma" font and I'm on Windows!

Shouldn't 'sans-serif' be the last font in the list though, as it would act as the default font if a user has none of the others?

No - on some old systems (e.g. Mandrake 8.0) sans-serif displays better than Arial or Helvetica. True Type fonts were displayed very poorly before the anti-aliasing stuff was put in X.

Ahh, I gotcha - I claim ignorance on all things Linux related!