CSS Font Help - Broswer Compatability
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- scdoody
I want to use the font Gill Sans Light - it shows up fine in Firefox - but it is showing as Arial in Safari and Internet Explorer 6.
Does anyone have any experience on how to make this work on most browsers and PC / MAC ?
Thanks!!
- eb60
Save save it as an image. Or us arial.
- johndiggity0
yeah. don't do that shit in the css.
- abba_cadaver0
The only way to guarantee that people will see Gill Sans is to use Sifr (even then it's not 100% if they don't have flash or javascript)
http://novemberborn.net/sifr3/al…
Any other way most people are just going to see arial or verdana regardless of what you specify
- scdoody0
I tried converting the .ttf to a .eot file and then using this to embed it in the CSS - but it still doesn't work in IE:
@font-face {
font-family:"Gill Sans";
font-style:normal;
src:url(/_testing/styles/GILLSAN...
}Any ideas why this isn't working in IE???
- Nairn0
Listen to abba_cadaver.
From my own investigations over the years, sIFR is the ONLY practically viable means of displaying custom fonts on webpages - and even that's not wonderfully effective at body text.
(images aside, clearly)
- Dancer0
scdoody, your font will ony work IF the user has the font loaded on there computer. Use SIFR or build the qhole site in flash
- TheBlueOne0
Oh my.