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		DiabloD3 on Dec 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why Verdana? In that order. I don't do Hel first because Linux historically has a broken Hel. Mac users often have DejaVu, Bitstream Vera, or Verdana installed anyhow. OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux. That, and I've viewed my website in Safari on OSX, it looks correct (although, like everything on OSX, it has hard to read fuzzy fonts).

cmontgomeryb on Dec 6, 2011 [–]

"OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux."

There are many more OSX users than Linux on the desktop.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201011-201111

DiabloD3 on Dec 11, 2011 | [–]

Except I collect website stats on my sites. OSX users are the smallest minority.

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