Sent by Michael Landis on 28 November 2003 18:06
Rick wrote (about http://www.afamily.net/~rsusoeff/new_stuff/splash.html):
> On a friend's Win98 machine with IE6, I noticed in my latest page design
> that my header had been replaced with a series of blocks that looked like
> empty borders. The blocks lined up exactly as I had laid out the header,
> but the text had been replaced by a series of empty blocks with borders
> on all four sides of what should have been the individual characters.
>
> Initially, I suspected my font declaration was not supported, but I
> declared only serif as font. I'm puzzled.
>
> I have not been able to duplicate this effect on any other machine or
> browser. Can someone please take a look and venture a guess?
I cannot remember who this should attributed to, but I do remember that IE
has problems with font declarations that only use the generic font
families. Declaring
font-family: serif;
can cause problems like what you describe, while
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
will properly populate. I haven't tested it, but if you really want to only
define the default, you might want to try requesting a random font name,
something like
font-family: LKSlKJGAlhjSAkdul, serif;
and see what happens.
HTH,
MikeL
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