The font is rendering as a serif in Opera 9, image here in case you're curious and don't have Opera 9: image
I've looked around but can't seem to find why Opera 9 wouldn't listen to the CSS for font-family: Helvetica. Any ideas?
Thanks~
A:
It works fine in Opera 10.01. Don't support old versions of Opera. Seriously.
Stefan Kendall
2009-11-18 20:22:36
I would like to, but Opera 9 is in the top 10 browsers that our users use, they're not very up to date in the other browsers all around...
nukegara
2009-11-18 20:24:59
I agree with you about older version of Opera, but that doesn't answer the question about Helvetica :P
Patonza
2009-11-18 20:25:21
Wrong. Opera 10's useragent says "9.8", so your results are biased. You probably have way more Opera 10 users than you know.
Stefan Kendall
2009-11-18 20:26:30
It's obviously a browser problem if it breaks in Opera 9 but not Opera 10. You don't program around the broken unless the broken is IE.
Stefan Kendall
2009-11-18 20:27:01
I just refuse to believe that Opera 9 users make the majority of any top-10 browsers for any site. Anywhere.
Stefan Kendall
2009-11-18 20:28:04
okay, good to know, our analytics just says version "9" I should probably check out some better analytics to get a better picture.
nukegara
2009-11-18 20:29:46
@Stefan : IN SOVIET RUSSIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Mail.ru_.28Russia.2C_2009_to_present.29
Felipe Alsacreations
2009-11-18 21:30:25
@Felipe: I refuse to believe it, and yet the numbers are right there. I...I...*explodes*
Stefan Kendall
2009-11-18 21:57:04
Stefan, browser market share varies a lot between countries.
hallvors
2009-12-03 13:19:37
Sure, but I never thought that Opera was big anywhere. Whenever I say I use Opera, people ask if I mean "that wii browser".
Stefan Kendall
2009-12-03 16:27:35
+1
A:
It looks like there is a font problem in Opera 9 under linux.
See this post about the problem.
Patonza
2009-11-18 20:23:01
I figured it out, my font-family had to be written Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif in order to Opera 9 to render correctly. I don't think our users run linux, but I'll check out the post just in case :)
nukegara
2009-11-18 20:26:54
Providing more than one font family is always best pratice, in case that a client cannot render the first font it will choose the second and so on. If you put them in order of "similarity" to the font you intended to use, you'll get a "graceful degradation" insteadd of displaying a totally wrong font.
Patonza
2009-11-18 23:08:52