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I’m not sure of this affects other versions of Chrome, I’m using Linux Mint 12 right now.
It seems that font-family serif vs "serif" (with quotes) displays a slightly larger font?
I just thought it was weird, I couldn’t figure it out.
Any help would be appreciated, though this is def. low priority.
Thanks!
Generic font family names aren’t supposed to be quoted as they are considered keywords, not strings.
My guess is that either:
Linux Mint contains a font family called “serif”, which Chrome is using when you quote the name as a string in your CSS; or
It doesn’t contain such a font, in which case Chrome falls back to some other system font that can either be the default serif font assigned to the browser or something else entirely.
It does not directly fall back to that default serif font solely based on the word “serif”. In other words, it’s not interpreted the same as the unquoted keyword
serif.