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Just a CSS critique: could you add "monospace" to the end of your list of monospaced fonts?

I have perfectly good monospaced fonts on this computer, but none of them are Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, or Lucida Console, so I end up with a default proportional serif font.



This might seem like an innocent change but it really is another HTML/CSS browser hell hole. If I remember correctly it was Jeff Atwood or jzy who taught me this lesson at a time when Stackoverflow was just out of Beta:

If the keyword monospace is somewhere in your font stack some browsers use 13px as default font size instead of the usual 16px. The workaround used to be to use both, serif and monospace, in your font stack. This used to work some time ago, I don't know if it still does with contemporary browsers.


O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it seem better now?


Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass along to the O'Reilly team and see if there's anything they can do.


O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it look better for you now?




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