Re: CSS Font Sizes and Macs

At 12:28 PM 23/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>yes... i find that small and x-small and xx-small give netscape vs ie
>problems, but going larger is okay (if i remember correctly)  basically
>xxsmall is okay on ie but unreadable on netscape. and i had a client who
>demanded it that tiny.  urgh. some just dont listen...
>but i like using relative sizes in case a user has it set higher for
>reasons of poor eye sight etc.

For all the dirt on these matters, go and read the following article on A=20
List Apart:

http://www.alistapart.zeldman.com/stories/fear4/index.html

Basically, the only two safe ways to size text on the Web for now are not=20
specifying size at all or using pixels.  Relative units like em,=20
percentages, small, x-small, etc are laden with inconsistency problems and=
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can lead to disaster.  Once NS 4.x disappears and IE on Windows fixes its=20
problems with small, x-small, etc, we can then safely use relative=20
units.  Points are a meaningless measurement unit on the Web and should be=
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avoided like the plague now as well as in the future.  Points are a print=20
measure and are irrelevant and unpredictable on the Web.  They have been=20
added to the CSS specifications to help designers create style sheets for=20
printing Web pages, not to size text on the screen itself.  Bottom line is,=
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if you want consistent results, use pixels or nothing at all...

St=E9phane Bergeron

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