On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > 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
Must be. I think I will do a quick test in basic html. Set the font and show bold and normal settings and see what they look like in IE6 and IE7. Mark ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
