Re: Text Size

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew McFarland" <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Text Size


> At 22:24 27/05/02 +0100, Hilma wrote:
> >I try to use "logical" font sizes everywhere - but "normal" in NS6 comes
out
> >as bold and too large.
>
> Oh no it doesn't. It comes out at exactly the right size :-)

!!
You mean when i go to preferences --> edit --> font size, and discover that
it was set up to 16 pts when i installed NS6 about a month ago, i ought to
change that setting?!
I hadn't  really investigated my browser options (i never do, i assume the
defaults - bad news).
But, having changed that setting to 12pts, it is only *my* website, of about
6 i use to check things, that has changed the font size.
So everyone else must use physical sizes.

> Unfortunately it isn't quite as simple as that. Avoid using font size
> keywords - they are not consistently dealt with across browsers.
ummm -which do you mean by "font size keywords"?
Surely not the logical sizes that i quoted that can be defined in the CSS
(small, xsmall etc) -
I thought that that was the most-approved way of allowing the user to make
his own choice (assuming s/he knows how, of course - unlike me)

>What you
> can do is define your text sizes using em. That way the text will be
> displayed at size the user has it set to.
Again, "em" is a physical size?

But this is, you say, prefereable to logical sizing?

thanks!

hilma
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