Verdana bold font ignored on web

I have a page displaying an outline. I have set the first level font to Verdana 8 Bold, but I can not get my web-clients to view the bold font I have specified. We are using java applets to display the page/outline.Tahoma font works fine, but our marketing guys prefers Verdana.

Any explanation / workaround / suggestion ?

Lars

Subject: IBM support response

Hereby the answer from IBM/Lotus support : Yes I was able to reproduce the problem and it seems that this problem is already reported under an SPR but there are no plans to be addressed in the future because it involves to many changes in the source code that may affect other functionalities. The workaround for this problem is to use HTML for the outline, instead of java applet