Re: What's an em

Matthew Brealey wrote:
> 
> Chris Lilley wrote:
> > Clive Bruton wrote:
> >
> > > I think then the document creator should have used alternatives, some of
> > > which were guaranteed to be on the system.
> >
> > The fonts guaranteed to be on the system are the five CSS generic font
> > families, and ther eis noindication what these look like or even if they
> > are all distinct.
> 
> More's the pity.

What would be your suggestion on an old text terminal with one font? (or a
new PDA with one font).


> For example, say I have P {font-family: cursive}. The UA is required to
> have an @font-face rule for cursive.

Yes.

> In Opera for example, it is mapped to Times New Roman. This makes pages very ugly.

Complain to Opera, not me. Its eems a really wierd choice, I agree.

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Chris