IE 5.5, CSS and garbled text

[alanf]

I have a website with all the content in DIV tags using CSS absolute positioning. On most computers and browsers (IE 5.5, IE 6, Netscape 5+) everything is fine. But on one person's computer using IE 5.5, all of the text appears as junk symbols - squares and other symbols. The Font-family in the stylesheet is specified as Georgia, serif. Awhile back, I saw these characters in one single box in my browser, but then they went away. Any ideas what could be causing this? The site is

http://www.itninc.org.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[iostream71]

does it happen all the time? i've had situations where if i scroll an area off the screen, the css would get messed up

 

[alanf]

It almost never happens. I only know of this one person having the problem. He sent me a screen shot so I've seen that all of the text is garbled. It happened to me a couple of months ago in one text box, but the problem disappeared.

 

[cian]

I could be way off on this but IE5/win had a little problem with a parsing issue.

You may need to add a "box hack" to your code, such as


voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width:300px;
}
when you include the above, you need to include the code below for Opera 5

html>body .content {
width:300px;
}


Check here for an explanation cos I dont really understand the issue:

http://glish.com/css/hacks.as

As I said I could be way off the mark but its important information to know anyway!



É

http://www.endamcg.com/finland-gaa

 

[alanf]

Thanks. That is interesting stuff. It does seem to deal with layout, rather than font, but it's certainly worth a shot. I tried working with it a little, and it seems to break the site in Netscape 4 (part of our spec is to be compliant with version 4+ browsers). Unfortunately too, I don't have immediate access to testing the problem on this other end user's browser. I'll keep working on it. Any other input from others is welcome. Anyone else know of problems with font rendering in IE 55??