On 8/28/2009 3:26 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> Now that I think about it, I don't really know what the font situation >> on Mac OS is, either. Should probably do a bit of looking into that. >> > I did a fresh Tiger install last week, and immediately updated to 10.4.11. I > installed no other software except for SeaMonkey 1.1.7& Firefox 3.5.2. This > left me with 100% of the M$ web fonts installed. > Was that a tyop, or are you saying that either Apple or Mozilla are including the M$ web fonts?
> With browsers other than IE, specifying > only a generic will allow the visitor to see used whatever his defaults are > set to. With IE, specifying only generics will allow the visitor to see the > defaults M$ hard-coded into the browser: Courier new for monospace, Times New > Roman for serif, and Arial for sans-serif. Safari (v4.0.3 at least) will use > its user-selectable monospace default if the requested font(s) are not > available, same as the Geckos, but when the requested serif or sans-serif > fonts are not available, it will supply the user-selectable default > proportional, regardless whether that default is a serif or a sans-serif, and > regardless whether the requested type of font is a serif or a sans-serif. > > http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-face-samples-cdef.html might be useful in > confirming for yourself. > > Note too that anytime Helvetica is requested on Windows, it is treated as if > the request had been for Arial, which means all the following on Windows > render identically: > > font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif > font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif > font-family: helvetica, sans-serif > font-family: helvetica, 'lucida sans unicode', 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif > font-family: sans-serif > Some of that I knew, but the rest of it was informative. >> What tool are you using for the analysis? >> > My eyes? What analysis? > Whatever produced that interesting looking screen-cap you posted, overlaid on my page. =] Best, michael ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
