One of my friend told me "Use font family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif in your website", when I asked him why then "blank" he don't know, some usability expert in his company told him this thing.
But when I tried helvetica, arial, sans-serif then I noticed that I bold and un-bold is not working properly with this font whereas I use arial, helvetica, sans-serif this then its working fine. note the difference here: http://hell.meiert.org/core/html/helvetica-arial.html
I googled on this, but nowhere seen anything much convincing to me. Then I SO'd and found a post Is Helvetica a browser base font?
So I want to ask that why Helvetica is recommended, and in the same post one of answers says "If you want Helvetica, you either have to get a Mac" So is the MAC PC's are the only reason to use this so that it will look good in MAC only?
In my site when I am using "arial..." as base font then → html character is rendering well in all browsers but when using "Helvetica..." then its not displaying properly in google chrome, Why?
Thanks