Font families on the iPhone

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Published on 2009-09-14T09:06:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 16:03 UTC
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Normally in a web app i would put a font-family in the CSS something like this

" font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;"

This way i cover my bases as to whether the target browser can handle the various fonts and will fail gracefully if it is missing some.

However that are only a limited number of fonts on the iphone and presumably if you only specify one, say Helvetica, the iPhone will always have that font and use it. So i don't really need a font-family. Do I?

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