On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Goldsmith, Marissa wrote: > The gist > of my question is, has anyone ever noticed CSS rendering differences > (especially regarding margins) between the various Mac OS10 versions? > > > (which had > SF 4,5 and Firefox 3) looked fine.
(aside - that would probably Safari 4.1 and /or Safari 5) > While investigating deeper, what we > discovered was that I was looking at OS10.4 and 10.5, while the other > end-user had OS10.6. 10.6 is a possible clue… Absent a URL, I can only venture a guess. Was/is the site using 'Helvetica Neue' as a font ? 10.6 ships with and extra face for Helvetica Neue: Helvetica Neue Medium which is slightly heavier than the normal face as its name implies. Now here is the catch: the browser default for 'strong' and 'b' is 'font-weight: bolder', and if Helvetica Neue is specified, the browser will use that Helvetica Neue Medium. <http://emps.l-c-n.com/notebook/HelveticaNeue-font-weight> If you have a largish block of bolded text, this may affect how many words fit on one line. Note also, in this context, that the medium face has a slightly different intrinsic line-height. hat may affect how much white space is perceived above/below a block. Other guesses have already been mentioned, namely that the affected visitor has a different font-size set, or a minimum font-size set. A third possibility is that the affected user doesn't have your preferred font installed or activated. Otherwise, everything being equal, no, I've never noticed any difference between the various versions of OS X, nor shouldn't there be. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
