Style sheet designers are encouraged to offer a generic font family as a last alternative. Generic font family names are keywords and must NOT be quoted. [1]
This should be common knowlegde for anyone that is working with CSS,
but what happens when you use a generic font-family that is not strictly defined.
The examples
- Mozilla Firefox win
- Opera 7.6b win
- MS IE 6.0 win
This is what the three different browsers offered when displaying a font of the the generic font-family fantasy.
Both Mozilla and IE seems to pick out a font on random, most likely they choose the first font on the system of undeterminied font-family. Since both these fonts names comes high in the alphabet. 4YEOSTAMP[2] and Amerika Alternates[3] the fonts chosen by Mozilla and IE respectively .
The problem is that the generic font-family fantasy isn’t defined. As other has put it:.. a catch-all category, it is defined more by what it is not (the other four font families) than what it is.[4]
or as any kind of whimsical font[5]
