Custom Fonts using @font-face in HTML/CSS

Farrukh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:44:12 +0000

One of my latest project involved @font-face which means using a custom font for your web content. It was my first experience working with @font-face as i never heard about it before so i thought i will share my experience with my readers.

As you know we cannot use custom fonts in a website as it will not be properly displayed on a computer which doesnt have these fonts installed, thus it will be replaced by system default fonts, in windows if a font is missing it is normally replaced by Times New Roman, so to avoid this we defint font like font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial is default for Windows, Helvetica is default for Mac. About Sans-serif I never used Mac personally so i am not sure if it is available on Mac or not but it is surely installed by default in Wondows. So this is the normal approac we follow so that we know how our website text will show up in different platforms.

CSS – Cross Browser Compatibility Issue

Farrukh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:01:00 +0000

Rather then using different CSS files for different browsers you can also achieve the same results using a single CSS file. If you keep your style strict by defining every attribute of the tag, specially i encourage redefining every tag to your own as mostly different browsers render them differently, let say Paragraph tag normally

JavaScript and Cross Browser Compatibility

Farrukh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:13:00 +0000

I promised my readers that i will be writing an article on JS and cross browser compatibility issues. JS is one of the major cause of cross browser compatibility issues. You must be thinking that why in the world there are any issues with JS as now even mobile phones are JS compatible and runs

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Custom Fonts using @font-face in HTML/CSS

CSS – Cross Browser Compatibility Issue

JavaScript and Cross Browser Compatibility