- From: Philippe Wittenbergh <jk7r-obt@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:55:06 +0900
- To: CSS <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:39 AM, David Hyatt wrote: > We have an ascent hack in WebKit that hacks the metrics of Times, > Helvetica and Courier on the Mac platform to boost their ascents to > more closely match their Windows counterparts (Times New Roman, > Arial and Courier New respectively). Therefore when compared with > other browsers on the Mac platform when using those fonts, WebKit > will have a larger line-height. Now that those Windows fonts are > available on Leopard this hack may not really be needed any > longer. (Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New were not available > on Tiger or earlier without installing Microsoft Office.) Uh ? Those fonts are part of a default OS X 10.3 and 10.4 install. <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25710> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301332> But thanks for confirming that you have some sort of hack for Helvetica in WebKit. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/
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