Here’s an interesting survey that I recently stumbled accross that’s very useful when determing which fonts are “web-safe.”
“How sure can you be that the font you specify will be present on the end user’s machine? This is the latest cross-platform snapshot of the Code Style font survey and should give you greater confidence in selecting a font.”
The following is the results of the “Full combined font survey” of font availability accross different platforms:
http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml
I love how something positive comes from a negative.
This is in reference to how using combined images and negative and positive CSS background positioning can help with load performance and reduce HTTP requests.
We’ve started using CSS sprites within our high performance projects along with other tactics to help bring users a faster page loading.