Re: font problem

by "Craig Newton" <whitby(at)idirect.com>

 Date:  Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:06:24 -0400
 To:  "Peter Benoit" <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>,
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  network
  todo: View Thread, Original
My apologies - I had a glitch in my email program (now fixed) that caused
the outbox not to empty when sent and just keep sending.
Be aware, I think I click send and receive about 21 times :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Benoit" <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>
To: "'Craig Newton'" <whitby(at)idirect.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: font problem


> Oh great... now emails are coming 4 at a time!
>
> *  -----Original Message-----
> *  From: Craig Newton [mailto:whitby(at)idirect.com]
> *  Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:18 PM
> *  To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> *  Subject: Re: font problem
> *
> *
> *  My two cents is that a client should not be allowed to make
> *  a specification
> *  like that because it is in no one's best interests.
> *  A webmaster role is also to educate.
> *
> *
> *  ----- Original Message -----
> *  From: "Adrian Harris" <adrian(at)gn.apc.org>
> *  To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
> *  Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:26 PM
> *  Subject: font problem
> *
> *
> *  > Hi,
> *  >
> *  > I'm having some font face problems with a site:
> *  >
> *  > http://www.gn.apc.org/design/room/
> *  >
> *  > The client wants Myriad as the prefered font. I tried:
> *  > <font face="Myriad, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
> *  >
> *  > without sucess, but:
> *  >
> *  > <font face="Myriad Roman, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif">
> *  >
> *  > works fine in NN 3 and IE 5, and I've checked in
> *  Browserola and all looks
> *  > fine. But the client can't see it on their IE 4 browser.
> *  They claim have
> *  > the font on the machine - but maybe they haven't! Is there
> *  somehing odd
> *  > with the font name I'm missing? Anything obvious I'm doing
> *  wrong - Other
> *  > than not using CSS (which I'm still getting to grips with.)!
> *  >
> *  > TIA
> *  >
> *  > Best wishes,
> *  > Adrian Harris.
> *  >
> *  > http://www.gn.apc.org/design
> *
> *

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