Trebuchet a websafe font?

I notice W3C have used the Trebuchet font

[jetnovo]

I notice that W3C have used what I think is the Trebuchet font at:

[w3c.org...]

I had trouble though finding reference to this in their stylesheets - but I wonder, is this now considered a web-safe font?

If so, what family does it belong to and what is a wise alternative option(s) when using this font in a Cascading Style Sheet?

[bunltd]

Try Code Style's Font Sampler [codestyle.org] for font stats.

LisaB

[vkaryl]

Lisa, thanks for that link. Amazing info, don't know why I never ran across it before!

[limbo]

I love this font - for it is a little different but is widely supported.

Add it to the sans serif family. It is naturally kerned closer Arial than verdana, and Times new roman is way too different in style.

Try

font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif";

Then look at you pages when you have the trebuchet font installed and then without - not too much difference. One thing you may notice is the width of the letters and tracking is slightly thinner with trebuchet.

[mincklerstraat]

lisaB - Code style's results are quite odd - placing Comic Sans MS as #2 (behind Arial Black), with Times New Roman coming in at spot 15 at only 78.31% (maybe people are deleting it)? These are also only windows users. Makes me think there may have been some issues with this survey - for one, it's manual, and users might see Times New Roman as looking 'Normal' and not checking the box.

My main 'font stats' ref is the Visibone Font Survey, [visibone.com...] , which shows % total, and then also % mac and % linux - they've got Times New Roman coming in at #2 with 99% of users. The survey is automated - it scans your machine for fonts. Their 'font card' gif is also a nice reference - [visibone.com...] .

[vkaryl]

minckler - there's another link for results that encompass linux, mac, AND windows platforms. Were some fonts in that one that I'd KILL to be able to use if only enough people had them installed! Or if only WEFT really worked cross browser....

Also completed the font survey, which was a very interesting thing.

[mincklerstraat]

yeah varkyl, something WEFT-like gets close to the top of my list for new ff features (it'd need to be an open protocol, of course, don't think the MS version was). I've even come close to actually using WEFT recently on a real site, even though it would so clearly fall into the 'encouraging users to use that é"'(§ browser' category.

[vkaryl]

I still use a couple of WEFT'ed fonts on some sites where I KNOW 99.9% of the users are only doing IE. It's nice in that way, too too bad it's so limited.

*shrug* If wishes were horses....