On 6 November 2010 18:01, Alexander Solla
On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:
Modern browsers might add in arrow from a different font if it is not present in the one chosen by the web page author - I suspect this is happening on this page where the arrow "looks wrong" typographically:
I don't think that's what's going on. Notice that the font used in that page is fixed width. The arrow looks wrong because it has to fit in a fixed width space. Fixed width arrows all look stubby, even if they are styled like the rest of the font.
Yes - I expect I'm wrong on that, although I'd say the arrow looks wrong because its too low. I thought I read that Firefox does a font swap if it can't find a glyph, but thinking about it myself I can't see that this would make sense - Firefox would have to know an awful lot about the OSes fonts to know if they have "missing" glyphs.