On 2009/09/21 05:29 (GMT-0400) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: > On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> ... (even on Mac) ... I apologize for subjecting the whole list to my uncorrected quadruple brain fart. > That is _not_ correct as far as Safari Mac is concerned (I don't have > Helvetica installed on my Windoze VMs). > 1. Safari on OS X has 'Helvetica' as default sans-serif font (for > Western languages). > 2. When 'Helvetica' is requested, 'Helvetica' is used. > 3. The thing Safari does, again on OS X, is matching the font-metrics > of Helvetica to the ones of Arial (and idem ditto for Times/Times New > Roman, Courier/Courier New) - for some webcompat reasons. For example, > Arial has a slightly bigger 'normal' line-height than Helvetica, but > Safari uses the line-height from Arial. > testcase: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/helvetica-f.html > screenshot: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/helvetica-f.png > on the left a recent Gecko nightly build, on the right, Safari 4.03 > Arial is a clone of Helvetica and both fonts are very similar, I knew this... > but look closely at the '@', they are different. ... but I was trusting memory on how to tell them apart, and blew it big time. I've updated http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-comps-helvwin.html to eliminate the bogus description of Mac behavior, made it easier to distinguish Helvetica from Arial in the samples, and provided links to Helvetica & Arial genealogy & to greater detail on distinguishing the two. BTW, I got 3 copies of your post, the third time stamped 1 minute later than the others. The list archive has a second dated a minute after the first too, which I did not get a copy of. -- "The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." 2nd U.S. President, John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
