On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Ghodmode wrote:

>> you can check athttp://www.expressionofmind.com/
>> 
>> thanks I really need some help.                                      
> The first problem I noticed is with the names of your fonts.  I stole this 
> line directly from the spec:
> 
>> To avoid mistakes in escaping, it is recommended to quote font family names 
>> that contain white space, digits, or punctuation characters other than 
>> hyphens

Right, that is some advice or recommendation, not a requirement. Left unquoted 
works fine. On the other hand, it is a good practice (amongst other things, it 
improves readability :-) )
FWIW, url for that part of the spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-family-prop

> It might not be matching one font on the Mac, and another one on the PC (or 
> on the Mac)... Is that font's name "Myriad Pro" (uppercase 'P')?

That doesn't matter, browser normalise to lowercase during parsing of the 
stylesheet, I think.
> 
> Do the fonts exist on the PC?  For example, my system doesn't have "Myriad 
> pro", "Lucida Grande", or Calibri, so it would fallback to sans-serif and 
> probably look much different than you intended.

Calibri is installed on Windows Vista and up by default, and anyone who has 
installed MS Office 2007 or newer. Lucida Grande is installed by default on OS 
X, Myriad Pro comes with Adobe CS suite. So there  should be something for 
every platform.
That said, you make a good point below:

> The font replacement shouldn't really affect the font size, but it would 
> definitely make it look different.

Both Myriad Pro and Calibri have a smallish aspect ratio, whereas Lucida 
Grande, and the default sans-erif font on most platforms have a large aspect 
ratio. That could give the impression that font size is different.

But this doesn't explain why the font-size would change between a:link and 
a:visited or from page to page. I've tested that on OS X, Linux Ubuntu and Win 
XP with different browsers, and I can't reproduce it. Nor do I see anything in 
the stylesheet that would justify that behaviour.

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/






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