Ged Haywood wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, allan wrote: > > > > > We were thinking to try removing font-family completely. Does anybody > > > > know of any problems with this approach? > > > > > > I don't think the problem is the font-family > > > > for the major part of the content we haven't specified a > > font-size at all > > Once I did a lot of cross-browser/cross-platform stuff, and in the end > to get decent results I had to check the incoming headers for browser, > version AND operating system and then modify the HTML to suit. It was > admittedly a fairly picky set of pages, where layout was everything to > the Client. > > There's really no substitute for viewing the pages on every browser/OS > combination - all sorts of quirky things appear when you least expect > it - but it makes for a very crowded desktop. I had nine computers on > there at the time. > > 73, > Ged.
yes and i think people don't realize one of the cool things about the code for the new mod_perl site which is the fact that we don't ask for browser and/or operating system either on client or server side. the html/stylesheet is excactly the same regardles of platform. that's a lot easier to maintain in the long run (and a lot harder to develop if we want a decent result) ./allan