On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: > Makes sense, but why is it then on my page that in FF (PC) and IE6 it > looks "bolder"/heaver than in IE7?
It is a bit more complicated. Most browsers on Windows will attempt to find a bold face for the specified font. If not available, they will using some algorithms to artificially bold the specified font. On Mac Safari, and in the future Gecko, the browser will look first for a bold face in the specified font-family, lacking that, they will look for a substitute font eventually, or eventually artificially bold out the font-face. The same goes for italics. What IE 7 does, I'm not sure yet. Maybe the font-smoothing that is turned on by default doesn't work all that well, and the bolding is not visually different from the normal font-weight. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
