Generic font families in Safari

[mmcirvin]

I think the single thing that is most missing from Safari, from my perspective, is a user interface to change the fonts that are used for the CSS generic font families (serif, sans-serif, monospace, etc.)

Firefox and Camino do have this, though of course few people understand what it does. But now there is actually one extremely prominent site out there that uses the generic font families in its stylesheets: Wikipedia (and other MediaWiki wikis). So it might have a little more visibility.

Comments

[whl.livejournal.com]

Have you looked at the stylesheet setting in the Advanced tab in the preferences?

I don't know anything about it, but I wonder if taking the default one, duplicating it, and changing a couple of lines in it might not deal with this.

Again, I'm just guessing.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I have, but I don't think that's the right approach, because I don't want to change the style, I want to set the specific font corresponding to a given generic style. I don't think there's an "element that has this style applied to it by another stylesheet" selector (at least I hope there isn't, because such a thing should not be).

I could make the font I want show up in Wikipedia, but that's not the point.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Ok.

I've only poked lightly at CSS so far (I do have a home page which is XHTML 1.0 compliant, but that is about as recent as my web page skills get...)

Then my next question: have you registered this as a bug/feature request?

https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa

It takes an AppleID from the Apple Developer Connection, but those are free, at this level.