Font and text handling in iWeb.

Hello, everyone.
How are fonts and text handled by iWeb ? I am now working on a website and have chosen to work with Gil Sans as one of my primary fonts.
Is this font included as default in a standard installation of Windows ? What about OS X ?
In case I create iWeb pages using this font what will happen when I publish these pages ? Will they be preserved as text ? In this case how will this font be handled by Windows and OS X ? Will the OS's replaced the absent font with another one ? What would the selection of a replacement be based on ?
Or will iWeb replace the text created in Gil Sans with an image of the text to ensure that the display of the web page follows my intended format ?
Thank you in advance,
Joseph

Here is a list of websafe fonts:
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
You might want to google 'web safe fonts' and compare other lists to that one just to check.
1. I think you're talking about ALT tags. You could do this as a workaround but it would still be slow loading, and search engines would index it as images, so your text would appear in Google images for example. You might also want to consider whether anyone might need to copy and paste any of your text at some point, and whether you'd ever need to print pages (they will be more ink-intensive and lower quality).
2. You can embed fonts in your webpage; however this only works on PCs and Macs running Windows: http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/embeddingfonts_inwebpages.shtm
Another way around it is to offer an install of the font (check it's shareware and don't forget to offer both Mac and PC versions) and recommend to your visitors that they install it.
Also remember that whichever font you use, a visitor may have altered their browser settings to display your text differently anyway.

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