Blog appearance on windows

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  reviewitagainjames · Member · Dec 16, 2014 at 3:57 am

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  Hi WordPress, I have started putting a blog together which looks fine on a Mac, however I am having big problems viewing the design on a Windows operating system. The design elements are gone (font’s, layout etc.) – Not sure what I have to do to fix this but I need it to work equally on all platforms before I start to promote this. Is there a fix for this???

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Dec 16, 2014 at 3:56 pm

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  Hi there!

  Since everything on the web is viewed using a browser, whether someone is using a Mac or Windows doesn’t affect the site, however, the browser being used does. So it’s not Apple vs Windows, rather it’s Chrome vs Firefox vs Safari vs Internet Explorer.

  WordPress.com themes usually look best on Chrome and Firefox, but you shouldn’t see any functional problems using any up-to-date browser. The usual culprit for theme problems are folks using Internet Explorer 8 or earlier:

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  I just checked out your site in multiple browsers and everything appears functioning:

  Screenshot in Chrome
  Screenshot in Firefox
  Screenshot in Safari
  Screenshot in Internet Explorer

  However, you specifically mentioned fonts and layouts. These are often difficult to make exactly the same cross-browser just because every browser does behave differently. If you’ll inspect some elements of your site, you can see some CSS where we attempt to match these sorts of things cross-browser, but some theme elements just aren’t supported.

  Your site actually appears to match elements very well — IE is even loading the Typekit fonts correctly.

  Please let me know of specific element you feel isn’t matching appropriately and I’ll if we can customize your site’s CSS to account for it.

  Best,

  -Alex G.