[thelist] Safari and cursive fonts

Erik Heerlein erik at erikheerlein.com
Mon Mar 14 20:03:41 CST 2005


On Mar 14, 2005, at 7:37 PM, David Siedband wrote:
> What's happening here is that Safari is assuming a font-weight:bold; 
> directive because you are applying these styles to headings.    These 
> fonts don't have bold suits so they are degrading to the Safari's 
> default style sheet.  You can work around this by specifying 
> font-weight:normal;

Yeah, what he said. :)

A good rule of thumb is if you run into a bug, specify as much as you 
can to see if that helps as browsers assume different default values if 
no specifics are made.



[>] Erik Heerlein
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