Andreas Prilop <nh******@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
The font "family" Impact consists of a single font. There is no bold
and no italic font of Impact. Some platforms do not render "bold"
or "italic" when the specified typeface has only one style.
Famous example is Arial Unicode MS.
Just for clarification, or to confirm my fears:
This means that on such platforms (which?), _any_ attempt to make text
bold or italic (e.g., font-weight: bold and <b>) will fail. Moreover,
HTML elements that by browser defaults have bold or italic rendering as
and no other visual effect, such as <em>, will effectively fail to
convey their message - e.g., emphasized text will look like normal text
(unless style sheets are used to change this).
The impact (no pun intended) looks serious, but I would classify it as
a browser bug more than anything else.
Is there any difference between font-style: italic and font-style:
oblique in this respect, or between different font-weight values?
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