Re: Consistent Cross Browser/Platform Font Sizes in CSS

Sheri,

URL -- please!!

That's an excellent idea -- just swap the sheet.

Now, if I could just get far enough into javascript to do the appropriate 
detection.

Tamara


At 05:13 PM 8/30/00 -0700, Sheri Reynolds wrote:
> >I'm currently using
>
> > font-size : 10pt;
> >
> > in my stylesheets, because other methods (at least the ones I know) of
> > setting the size in CSS seem to behave very differently in IE and NN.
> > However, I hate to name an absolute size, because that disables the user's
> > ability to control font sizes (and doesn't 10pt on a Mac look pretty
> > small?).
> > My management is unhappy with the way Arial (that's the font I'm
> > using) looks at its default size (too big, they say).  I know there's got
> > to be a way to get that look in all CSS browsers, but what am I
> > overlooking?
>
>
>I have started implementing a standard Javascript detect for the platform
>(Mac or Win) and I then load a platform specific style sheet. I generally
>make all of the Mac font sizes one size larger than Windows. It's not a
>perfect solution as there are still variations between the browsers within a
>platform, but you can further refine the script to detect platform and
>browser and load numerous style sheets to deal with each situation.
>
>
>Sheri Reynolds
>Production Director
>Visual Research, Inc.
>http://www.visualresearch.com
>
>

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