Browsers: Can't read certain fonts in Firefox?
Can't read certain fonts in Firefox?
by monsieurms - 10/10/09 4:54 AMI have a problem with some websites where the font on my screen (using Firefox) looks like gibberish, as if I didn’t have a font of the type required installed.
Lately, this has been happening with Twitter’s introduction of “What are you doing?”
I must have the font installed—since if I copy and paste into WORD, it shows me the real text instead of gibberish.
This is the Twitter source for the page, below, above the “What are you doing?” tag line that I cannot read in my browser, but can read fine in WORD.
It must be a Firefox problem—the text comes through clearly on IE 8.
Anyone have an idea why this is happening?
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var matches,url,path,domain;url=document.location.toString();try{domain=url.match(/https?:\/\/[^\/]+/);if(matches=url.match(/(.+?)#(.+)/)){url=matches[1];path=matches[2];if(path){var arr=path.split(/\?/);path=arr[0];var params=arr[1];path=path.replace(/^\//,"");var redirect_url=[domain,path].join("/");if(params){redirect_url=[redirect_url,params].join("?")}document.location=redirect_url}}}catch(err){};
//]]>
</script> <script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var page={};var onCondition=function(D,C,A,B){D=D;A=A?Math.min(A,5):5;B=B||100;if(D()){C()}else{if(A>1){setTimeout(function(){onCondition(D,C,A-1,B)},B)}}};
//]]>
</script>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta content="en-us" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now." name="description" />
<meta content="no" http-equiv="imagetoolbar" />
<meta content="width = 780" name="viewport" />
<meta content="4FTTxY4uvo0RZTMQqIyhh18HsepyJOctQ+XTOu1zsfE=" name="verify-v1" />
<meta content="1" name="page" />
<meta content="NOODP" name="robots" />
<meta content="y" name="session-loggedin" />
<meta content="39554504" name="session-userid" />
<meta content="MarkSquiresW" name="session-user-screen_name" />
<title id="page_title">Twitter / Home</title>
<link href="http://a1.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<link href="http://a1.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/twitter_57.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" title="Your Twitter Timeline" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.rss" title="Your Twitter @MarkSquiresW Mentions" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/favorites/39554504.rss" title="Your Twitter Favorites" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link href="http://a3.twimg.com/a/1255039715/stylesheets/twitter.css?1255139746" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="http://a1.twimg.com/a/1255039715/stylesheets/forgot_password.css?1255139746" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
background: #9AE4E8 url('http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18336751/PICT0038001.jpg') fixed no-repeat top left;
}
a,
#content tr.hentry:hover a,
body#profile #content div.hentry:hover a,
#side .stats a:hover span.stats_count,
#side div.user_icon a:hover,
li.verified-profile a:hover,
#side .promotion .definition strong,
p.list-numbers a:hover,
#side div.user_icon a:hover span {
color: #0084B4;
}
body,
ul#tabMenu li a, #side .section h1,
#side .stat a,
#side .stats a span.stats_count,
#side div.section-header h1,
#side div.user_icon a,
#side div.user_icon a:hover,
#side div.section-header h3.faq-header,
ul.sidebar-menu li.active a,
li.verified-profile a,
#side .promotion a,
body #content .list-header h2,
p.list-numbers a,
.bar h3 label,
body.timeline #content h1,
.list-header h2 a span {
color: #333333;
}
#side_base {
border-left:1px solid #BDDCAD;
background-color: #DDFFCC;
}
ul.sidebar-menu li.active a,
ul.sidebar-menu li a:hover,
#side div#custom_search.active,
#side .promotion,
.notify div {
background-color: #EDFFDC;
}
.list-header,
.list-controls,
ul.sidebar-list li.active a,
ul.sidebar-list li a:hover {
background-color: #DDFFCC !important;
}
#side .actions,
#side .promo {
border: 1px solid #BDDCAD;
}
#side div.section-header h3 {
border-bottom: 1px solid #BDDCAD;
}
#side hr {
background: #BDDCAD;
color: #BDDCAD;
}
ul.sidebar-menu li.loading a {
background: #EDFFDC url('http://a1.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/spinner.gif') no-repeat 171px 0.5em !important;
}
#side .collapsible h2.sidebar-title {
background: transparent url('http://a2.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/toggle_up_dark.png') no-repeat center right !important;
}
#side .collapsible.collapsed h2.sidebar-title {
background: transparent url('http://a1.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/toggle_down_dark.png') no-repeat center right !important;
}
#side ul.lists-links li a em {
background: url('http://a3.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/arrow_right_dark.png') no-repeat left top;
}
#side span.view-all {
border-left:1px solid #BDDCAD;
}
#list_subscriptions span.view-all,
#list_memberships span.view-all,
#profile span.view-all,
#profile_favorites span.view-all,
#following span.view-all,
#followers span.view-all {
border-left: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body class="timeline firefox-windows" id="home"> <script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
if (window.top !== window.self) {document.write = "";window.top.location = window.self.location; setTimeout(function(){document.body.innerHTML='';},1);window.self.onload=function(evt){document.body.innerHTML='';};}
//]]>
</script>
<div id="dim-screen"></div>
<ul id="accessibility" class="offscreen">
<li><a href="#content" accesskey="0">Skip past navigation</a></li>
<li>On a mobile phone? Check out <a href="http://m.twitter.com/">m.twitter.com</a>!</li>
<li><a href="#footer" accesskey="2">Skip to navigation</a></li>
<li><a href="#tabMenu" accesskey="3">Jump to the sidebar</a></li>
<li><a href="#signin">Skip to sign in form</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="container" class="subpage">
<span id="loader" style="display:none"><img alt="Loader" src="http://a0.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/loader.gif" /></span>
<div id="header">
<a href="http://twitter.com/" title="Twitter / Home" accesskey="1" id="logo">
<img alt="Twitter.com" height="36" src="http://a0.twimg.com/a/1255039715/images/twitter_logo_header.png" width="155" />
</a>
<form method="post" id="sign_out_form" action="/sessions/destroy" style="display:none;">
<input name="authenticity_token" value="8b8e7742521f8c3ddfd47b12841e17b43e53aed8" type="hidden" />
</form>
<ul class="top-navigation round">
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/home" accesskey="h" id="home_link">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/MarkSquiresW" accesskey="p" id="profile_link">Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter" accesskey="=" id="find_people_link">Find People</a></li>
<li><a href="/account/settings" accesskey="s" id="settings_link">Settings</a></li>
<li><a href="http://help.twitter.com" accesskey="?" id="help_link">Help</a></li>
<li>
<a id="sign_out_link" href="/logout" onclick="document.getElementById('sign_out_form').submit(); return false;" accesskey="l">Sign out</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="content-bubble-arrow"></div>
<table cellspacing="0" class="columns">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="content" class="round-left column">
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="status_update_box"><form action="http://twitter.com/status/update" class="status-update-form" id="status_update_form" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0"><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="8b8e7742521f8c3ddfd47b12841e17b43e53aed8" /></div>
<input id="tab_action" name="tab" type="hidden" value="index" /> <input id="authenticity_token" name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="8b8e7742521f8c3ddfd47b12841e17b43e53aed8" /> <input id="in_reply_to_status_id" name="in_reply_to_status_id" type="hidden" value="" /> <input id="in_reply_to" name="in_reply_to" type="hidden" value="" /> <input id="source" name="source" type="hidden" value="" /> <input id="tab_action" name="tab" type="hidden" value="index" />
<fieldset class="common-form standard-form">
<div class="bar">
<h3><label for="status" class="doing">What are you doing?</label></h3>
<span id="chars_left_notice" class="numeric">
<strong id="status-field-char-counter" class="char-counter"></strong>
</span>
</div>
<div class="info">
Web address?
by MarkFlax
- 10/10/09 6:19 AM
In reply to: Can't read certain fonts in Firefox? by monsieurms
I didn't read through all of that page source but I couldn't see a web site.
Can you provide it? Myself and others use Firefox, so we can test it ourselves.
Mark
web
by monsieurms - 10/10/09 6:30 AM In reply to: Web address? by MarkFlax
Twitter.com
Under VISTA, on my laptop with FF---no problem, btw.
Under XP, with FF, same version...problem.
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