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posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 08.01.2021, 22:21

> > > I'm able to see tables correctly aligned if I go to preferences, find
> > > "Fonts and Colors", and then, clicking "Advanced...", select a
> > monospaced
> > > font as proportional font.
> > >
> > > I thought this sub-optimal, but just found out now, that, as long as I
> > > enable "allow pages to select their own fonts...", it works well
> enough.
> >
> > Why did you disable this before? :confused:
> > Can this bug be "closed" now?
>
> That seems to be a misunderstanding. Japheth was forced to either tell his
> browser to use a typewriter (monospaced) font even for things which would
> otherwise be using a normal, proportional font. Or he has to allow websites
> to use fully custom fonts, as far as I understand his comment.
The latter is the default setting in Firefox and other standard browsers. That's why I asked, why he disabled this setting in the past.

> That is not the best solution to the problem. Just a tedious workaround.
> The forum should work in a way which only tells the browser to use a
> monospace font.
This is what it does with the <code> tag, as tom already pointed out.

> Without the requirement to let the website (BTTR) select which font
> exactly to use.
But that's how the WWW worked for decades. The forum uses "font-family: courier-new, courier;" for <code>. Both fonts are widely used. If these fonts are not available on the user's computer, then the user's browser has a fallback mechanism to use a similar font instead.

> I hope the website at least does not tell the browser to download fonts
> somewhere?
It does not. See https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/style.css for the fonts used.

> That would be the most annoying solution, but some websites do this for
> "perfect" styling :-p
I know. And these downloads are sometimes larger than what fits on a 3.5" floppy. :-(

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