Re: Font sizes as installed

Jim:

Oh Boy!!  Don't hold me to this but I think that windows 95 and 98 at least,
defaults to "small". As you found out, Windows will allow you to change just
about everything. And if you change to one of the "sight impaired" (B&W)
schemes, things really change.

Because of eye problems, I have changed my settings so much over the last
couple of years that I just don't remember where they were when I started.
And of course--over and above the global Windows settings--the IE browser
settings have several positions. The two different settings will interact
somewhat.

This is one reason why many advocate not using CSS to set sizes but rather
to allow the individual "browser" settings to take effect with normal HTML.
This allows all of us one-eyed fuzzy sighted old fogies to adjust the text
size to something we can read. (Now--if we could just get the Department of
Motor Vehicles to allow us the same leeway with their eye charts ???)

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/novels/
www.newsredding.com/
www.ramac-rc.org/


> What is the default font size as installed by Windows??
>
> You can see what this is by going to the Desktop Properties:
>
>
> { Right Click On Desktop --> Properties --> Settings --> Advanced -->
> Display
> --> Font Size }
>
> In Windows 98SE there are three choices: 96dpi, 120dpi and Other. 96dpi
> is considered small fonts and 120dpi is considered to the large fonts.
>
> The reason I ask, wonder, is that I have two installations of Windows
> 98SE on my Linux computer: one with the default settings and the other
> customized for working. I'm working on a site and noticed that there
> were some radical differences in font sizes.
>
> Basically, using the CSS font-size attribute with MSIE 5.0, the fonts
> were differently sized depending upon whether the Window's Font Size
> setting was on large (120dpi) or small (96dpi) -- of course.
>
> I had set the font family, but not the font size.
>
> With the default large font (120dpi) I had did set the font size using
> CSS to 10pt, then to 8pt before I got it to the size that I wanted, then
> I looked at it at 8pt, and it was really small.
>
> Anyway, does anyone know if Large (120dpi) is the default and under what
> conditions.
>
> It adds another thing to consider when working with displaying pages to
> clients. (hmmm)
>
> later...
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>

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