Re: Wing Dings Part 2

MSIE 5.5 on Windows 98:
All three cases: No wingdings

Jolene Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Wing Dings Part 2


> Ok, let me state for the record that Wing Dings absolutely ARE NOT what
> is specified, and ARE NOT what is wanted as the font for the links at
> the top of the page.
> 
> If people could look at the links below, and if on the first one, they
> get Wing Dings, could ya'll post to this list or to me directly what
> version of MISE are you using. Further, if you do see WingDings, does
> the last link, that refers to non-existant fonts before it get's to
> serif, also show the WingDing font.
> 
> Seemingly, some versions of MSIE will render WindDings as the font in
> the top navigational links in the following:
> 
> I. Case One - wing dings
> 
> http://abilenetx.com/Human_Resources/catold.html
> 
> In it's CSS I have this:
> 
> BODY { font-family: serif; }
> 
> II. Case Two - no wing dings
> 
> The fix seems to be either specify the exact font or to remove the font
> declaration altogether, like this:
> 
> http://abilenetx.com/Human_Resources/category.html
> 
> It does NOT have a CSS declaration for BODY
> 
> III. Case Three - do it do wing dings?
> 
> My question is what happens when the font does not exist like thus:
> 
> http://abilenetx.com/Human_Resources/catoldnew.html
> 
> BODY { font-family: "Some Font Name", "Another Font Name", serif; }
> 
> Note that these font's do not exist. My concern is over if the fonts do
> not exist, what happens.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
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