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oh, and if you’re using Firefox 3 builds…

Started by johnlilly · 10 months ago

…to look at this blog, apologies. something weird going on with something in my wordpress css and how firefox 3 wants to display fonts. as a result, my fonts here for firefox 3 users have been, um… suckified. working on addressing, but maybe not until next week. fwiw% ... Continue reading »

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  • Looks good to me on today's trunk win32 nightly -- that is, it looks pretty much the same as it does on IE7. Perhaps it's a Mac issue?

    - A
  • Hm. For some reason it seems to look OK on Firefox 3 w/OSX Tiger but not on Firefox 3 w/OSX Leopard (I just did a side by side comparison with the same build).
  • Further testing and talk with Stuart revealed: Firefox 3 does kerning, Safari doesn't, so it will always look a little different. However, Safari shows it the same way across Tiger and Leopard, and on Leopard Firefox 3 shows the fonts as squooshed.

    Filed bug 400717.
  • Haven't tracked this down yet, but for some reason FF3 is picking up "Futura Condensed Medium" instead of "Futura Medium", which is what it probably should be picking up. As a temporary workaround, you can explicitly specify "Futura Medium". Sorry for the bother...

    Gory details:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39...
  • thanks john! things look a lot better now!!
  • ex really ex
    but tell me how old are you
  • Firefox 3 rules man!!!
    Yahoo0! (no reference to yahoo inc)

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