Well, the first test went pretty well.

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2 Responses to “OK, one more test…”

1. Mike Starr says at February 25th, 2006 at 11:20 pm :
   
   I’m pretty rusty with the HTML, and can’t claim to really understand how Blogger works, but it seems significant that the Arial tags are present and hard-coded in the atom.xml file, even before the stylesheet is applied to produce the html file. So my guess is that the stylesheet is fine, and you should focus on how the hard-coded Arial specs made it to the atom.xml file. Maybe Outlook is generating it? I’m curious to know if the problem goes away if you switch your email client to “plain text” instead of “html”.

2. Brian says at February 26th, 2006 at 12:02 am :
   
   Thanks, Michael – I hadn’t really gone through Blogger help on the issue (lazy me). I’ll try a plain text e-mail right now & see what happens.

   As for the atom.xml, I’ve never touched it, but my assumption is that Arial is the default font, unless you specify something else in the style sheet. It’s odd that regular posts wind up in Book Antiqua (with the same atom.xml file), but the mobile posts wind up in Arial.

   It’s also occuring to me now that the posting that resulted in a class = “mobile-post” came from a blackberry, and the ones that made a “MsoNormal” class came from Microsoft Outlook. I wonder if “Mso” stands for Microsoft Outlook, and Blogger somehow knows the difference. That test will have to wait until my new employer gives me a blackberry (since I gave up my old one when I left my previous job).

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