"Safari, No Good"

I haven’t been much of an Apple enthusiast. In fact, it was my lack of experience working with Macs that made me extra-curious about the Beta test of Safari for Windows. I was wondering if it might give me a little more insight to the whole “Apple Experience” and how it differs from the “Windows Condition”. So I downloaded. I installed. I clicked it on. And, well, it certainly does look different.

In case you didn’t notice, except for the words within image files, there is no text. Now that really IS a different way to experience the Web, but not necessarily one I’m eager to experience. A little Googling and I see I’m not the only one with this particular glitch, but no one has reported a fix yet. After some random clicking within the Safari window, I ended up at Google, where the text was visible, but was certainly not in the same fonts as in Firefox.

Now I AM a font enthusiast, so I could tell that the Arial was replaced with Helvetica (very Apple of them) but the Verdana was replaced with something rather whimsical… I have collected hundreds of whimsical fonts on this machine, but this one looked familiar… a little font-surfing and I found it…

The Brady Bunch Font?!?!? No wonder no text showed up on Apple’s homepage. I don’t have the font from the titles to “The Partridge Family”…