Rick F. wrote: > Ok.. I'm finding IE6 somewhat annoying with regards to monospaced fonts.. > I've got some reports that I generate that are tabular in nature and > look fine in Firefox for both PC/Mac as well as Safari on Tiger (OSX). > In reviewing how the output looks for IE6 on PC's I find that the font > being used by that browser is proportional and all of my tabular data > is all over the place horizontally speaking. I searched the archives' > of this list and found a few hints but am not that pleased with the > results. > I've tried setting my font-family for these reports to : > 1: font-family: 'andale mono', 'lucida console', 'bitstream vera sans', > monospace; > 2: font-family: Arial, "Courier New", sans-serif, monospace; > 3: font-family: Monaco, "Luxi Mono", "Courier New", Courier, monospace; > 4: font-family: Courier, "Courier New", monospace;
'bitstream vera sans', Arial and (by default) sans-serif on windoze are proportional fonts. > I was originally using #4 which works great on Firefox and Safari but doesn't > for IE6. On WinXP, Courier and Courier New both look the same on FF and IE6 here. > The only one that looks quasi monospaced for IE6 is #2.. It shouldn't, unless someone has removed Arial from the system and Courier and/or Courier New is/are installed (at least one should be). > I'd prefer not to serve up different css files for different browsers if I > don't really > need to.. Any ideas on a nice easy way to get a monospaced font behavior on > IE6 and > still work for Firefox & Safari? How about a public screenshot to show us what you see? Here's what I see on http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html : http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/monofonts-WXP.png Ref. also to http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml for more looks at fonts. -- "Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you." Psalm 55:22 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
