Hello Lea, I note that you used incorrect syntax for your CSS declarations - ending declarations with ':' rather than ';'. I assume this is just a typo in this message, rather than the potential source of the problems you had, since in a CSS file it would generally cause the declaration to fail.
RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lea de Groot > Sent: 21 February 2005 21:05 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:43:40 -0000, Richard Ishida wrote: > > In any case you should always finish a font-family declaration with > > 'serif' or 'sans-serif' in this situation. Then if none of > the fonts > > you indicated are on the user's system, a font that they do > have will > > be used. > > Caveat alert! > Errr, sort of an inverse caveat, if you take this too far. > I had a site where I thought 'I do not care what font this > part appears in, let them choose which serif font it has and used: > #block {font-family: serif: } > Bad move :( > Some versions of IE (some V6 variant IIRC) showed a lovely > set of black square blocks instead of text. :( We checked the > browser and it didn't have a bizarre selection as its default font. > Changing the declaration to a simple: > #block {font-family: Times, serif: } > fixed the problem. > > FYI > Lea > -- > Lea de Groot > Elysian Systems - I Understand the Internet > <http://elysiansystems.com/> Search Engine Optimisation, > Usability, Information Architecture, Web Design Brisbane, Australia > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
