[thelist] Safari and cursive fonts

[emily tarrant]

Thanks so much David and Erik! That would never have occurred to me. There was 
me thinking that the less I put in the test, the better... I won't be able to 
try it out till this evening, but I will certainly do so.

Thanks again for all your help.
Emily

Quoting Erik Heerlein <erik at erikheerlein.com>:

> 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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> 
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