Fonts will misbehave. Or developers. Or Me. I don't care anymore.
September 28, 2010 3:42 PM Subscribe
I figured out today that every single web browser on my machine (HP dv7t, Windows 7) - Chrome, FFox, and IE8 - fonts on some sites are displaying wrong. That's bad because I need to review sites for my job.
You can see what I see versus what my coworker sees here. WTF is going on?
Things I've done:
1. Reviewed the default font on my browsers and changed it back and forth (stuck with Arial).
2. Cleared my cache for the sites in question.
3. Checked "internet settings" but those track back to being just for IE, and are set up for Arial to be the default anyway.
I've also sworn a lot and restarted all browsers in question.
Additional observations:
1. it seems to be limited to two WP sites on our dev server.
2. my impression was that my developer had left a [strong] tag open somewhere (because it looks bold and when I edit content, [strong] seems to have no effect) but he validated his code and there are no open tags.
Ideas?
You can see what I see versus what my coworker sees here. WTF is going on?
Things I've done:
1. Reviewed the default font on my browsers and changed it back and forth (stuck with Arial).
2. Cleared my cache for the sites in question.
3. Checked "internet settings" but those track back to being just for IE, and are set up for Arial to be the default anyway.
I've also sworn a lot and restarted all browsers in question.
Additional observations:
1. it seems to be limited to two WP sites on our dev server.
2. my impression was that my developer had left a [strong] tag open somewhere (because it looks bold and when I edit content, [strong] seems to have no effect) but he validated his code and there are no open tags.
Ideas?
Best answer: Have you checked c:\Windows\Fonts for a corrupted font file? Turned on the various developer tools (Firebug, etc.) and checked what the browsers are seeing in terms of CSS markup?
posted by holgate at 3:53 PM on September 28, 2010
posted by holgate at 3:53 PM on September 28, 2010
Response by poster: It was a bad font file. When I saw the font families he was calling, I remembered installing Helvetica off our office server. Which apparently came with an error.
Glory hallelujah. I have no idea how long it would have taken me to come up with that on my own.
posted by Medieval Maven at 4:07 PM on September 28, 2010
Glory hallelujah. I have no idea how long it would have taken me to come up with that on my own.
posted by Medieval Maven at 4:07 PM on September 28, 2010
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posted by GuyZero at 3:45 PM on September 28, 2010