On 2012/02/27 10:42 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed:
You're using the generic font family "sans-serif", so you're letting the OS/browser decide what font to use. It's more likely that they're different
Actually you're letting the user decide, since the default is presumptively what the user either chose actively by personalizing his personal computing device, or passively by retaining the choice of the browser vendor.
fonts than that they're the same fonts rendering differently.
You would probably be better off using "web safe" fonts, which means that they're likely to be available on all of your target platforms.
All recent major browsers and most other browsers released this century default to web safe fonts.
A web search for web safe fonts will help you decide what fonts to use. I just did it and here's my first result: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
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