I have already released this as Helvetica Neue. OK?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM, David Leader <david.lea...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Bob replied to my description of the Safari 7 font-rendering problem on
> JSmol:
>
> ==========================================================
> Certainly very curious. It must be considered a Safari bug that they are
> not picking up the sans-serif bold, which is required by HTML5 standards.
> But we can get around  it. You can experiment in JSmol. In
> j2s/core/core.z.js  look for
>
> "Sans-Serif"
>
> and change that to anything you want. I believe
>
>  "Helvetica Neue, Sans-serif"
>
> is sufficient.
> ==========================================================
>
> I did some tests and the best Apple-only typeface I found is Avenir. I
> need to check it on different devices, but I have a test page with the
> default Sans-Serif markup in "j2s/core/core.z.js at:
>
> http://motif.gla.ac.uk/JSmolTest/sans/index.html
>
> and an alternative with "Avenir, Sans-Serif" markup in "j2s/core/core.z.js
> at:
>
> http://motif.gla.ac.uk/JSmolTest/avenir/index.html
>
> If it doesn't have any odd side-effects on other platforms I'll
> incorporate it into Motivated proteins.
>
> David
>
> ...but I wish I knew why Safari renders the type differently on a
> simple canvas from on a JSmol canvas.
>
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