Re: More on font sizes

Netscape 4.x != CSS compliant.

Named sizes are the only things I can get it to render correctly.  They
promise better with V5 (Gecko).


-----Original Message-----
From: The Veracious <theveracious(at)yahoo.com>
To: HWG Style Sheets Mailinglist <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: More on font sizes


>Hello!
>
>Thank you everybody for the input on this subject previously! With more
>knowledge, I have now tested different font sizes and reached several
>good soultions to that problem. However, all solutions give rise to new
>problems! When I change the font-size specification to anything but
>small, medium, etc, Netscape ignores everything else I specify for that
>element.
>Examples:
>
>Using medium
>.P {  font-family: arial,helvetica;  text-align: center;  font-size:
>medium;  }
>This Netscape 4.51 renders as Arial, centered, and font-size 12 or 14
>(not sure which). IE 4.0 renders it with a larger font-size.
>
>Using px, pt, or cm
>.P {  font-family: arial,helvetica;  text-align: center;  font-size: 14
>pt/14 px/.33 cm;  }
>This Netscape 4.51 will render as Times New Roman, left-aligned, and 14
>points/14 pixels/.33 cm high! IE 4.0 renders it correctly.
>
>This seems like a very quirky solution to rendering font-sizes to me!
>How can Netscape render other attributes correctly _only_ when I use
>small, medium etc, and totally ignore other attributes when I use other
>size specifications?! Has any of you run into this problem and found a
>satisfactory solution? Many thanks for all help to spread light on
>this!
>
>Sincerely,
>Sofia B.
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