Re: font size

Hi Shelby,

Mac browsers tend to treat points and pixels as if they were equivalent. So
your 8pt text is being viewed in actuality on the mac as 8px.
You can avoid this by setting the font size in px instead of points.
Take care
Lynne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cook, Shelby" <scook(at)equibase.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:25 AM
Subject: font size


> Help!  I have a site here: http://www.ntra.com that I've gotten a couple
of
> complaints about the font size either being illegible (in Netscape)
> especially on the menu bar on the left or changing font size on the
> "Breeding Edge" page.  I've used specific font sizing (size 2 Arial,
> Helvetica) for specific areas and the default for the BODY is 8pt Arial.
> The font is small on the menu in NN but not illegible.  I have been unable
> to reproduce the problems they are describing, though the complaint of the
> very small font came from a MAC user which I don't have access to.  I did
> have another complaint that I was able to reproduce by changing my IE
> default font from "middle" to "smallest" at which time the errors showed
up
> but it's not this time.  Am I missing something?  Can anyone else see
these
> errors?
> TIA,
> Shelby Cook
>

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