- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:53:51 -0600
- To: Philippe Wittenbergh <jk7r-obt@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Cc: CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Yes, I forgot to mention that Mac IE would bring in those fonts too. dave On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > > 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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