2014-06-21 7:38, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 14:01 -0500 on 06/16/2014, Richard Wendrock Forum wrote about Re:
[css-d] font-variant:small-caps;:
I used David's suggestion to solve the problem. Assuming Arial does
not have small-caps variants, I switched to font-family: Verdana,
Geneva, sans-serif; and that solved the problem. Thank you everyone!
One warning - Even if you choose only families that have small-caps, it
will not fix the problem UNLESS these families are universal (ie: Are on
all your user's machines).
As I mentioned in my earlier comment, the solution was illusionary:
Verdana has no small caps, neither has Geneva, and most probably not any
font used as default sans serif font, unless a user has explicitly
selected a default font different from factory settings.
And there is absolutely no font that is universal in the sense of being
installed in all devices used to access web pages.
The only fix that will work is to use a
downloadable font with small-caps. This, of course, assumes that the
user's browser supports downloadable fonts <g>.
Practically all browsers in use support downloadable fonts (when the
fonts are provided in different font formats), though the support may be
disabled, usually inadvertantly. But you would also need to use
font-feature-settings instead of font-variant, and you would need to use
a font generator that preserves the information needed for accessing
small caps.
Yucca
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