Problems with Fonts on a web page

What one person types and what the other one gets is often totally different. It all depends on which fonts a computer has. If another computer does not have the same font a "close to it font" is being picked by the computer and the results are often baffling.

In Web design one gets very limited choices of fonts otherwise half (or more) the world's population would not be able to read it as the letters would be all twisted. For official writings it is always advised (demanded) that Times New Roman at 12 points is being used as that fonts seems to be compatible world wide. It is only my 2 cents worth but I have the same problem with some emails, the letters I see are not what the author of the email used. So much for that so the person who got capitals is correct and the person who did not type in capitals is correct. It just means that one computer has fonts the other computer does not. Windows 2000 has as default the lowest number of fonts (business use does not need a lot of fonts).

So I think if someone suggests that a certain someone's use of a font creates a reading problem it should be considered as legitimate. Why would someone say it shows as all capitals if it does not, a bit of investigation would help us all learn something. It is easy to see how one's computer converts a certain font, just click on forward and put the cursor on the letter and the font shows in the font window. I bet you it could be several different font names for so many different users in this group. By the way some fonts go to capitals as some fonts do not have the small letters, yes really.

Every different Windows version has a different set of default fonts, you can Google if you want to know more.