Re: Browser font issues on the Mac

IE5 has a lot of seemingly unnecessary changes that are a real pain! One is
that a text input field is sized very differently from IE4, which screws up
table arrangements. Now we not only have to deal with differences between NN
and IE, but also between versions of IE. Now your email shows that we also
have to deal with differences between platforms. Is there no end to this?

Gary Bonham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Wilson" <lightstorm(at)jps.net>
To: "hwg-graphics" <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: Browser font issues on the Mac


> Hello,
>
> I downloaded Internet Explorer 5.0 for Macintosh the other day and noticed
a
> really big difference in the way it handles fonts. In doing a side by side
> comparison between IE 4.5, Netscape and IE 5.0, the point size on 5.0 was
a
> lot bigger than the other browsers. To the point of throwing the layout of
> the page out of whack. Usually Mac's render fonts smaller than on other
> platforms and I'm wondering if this is a way that Microsoft has
compensated
> for this difference? Has anyone else had this experience with 5.0 or any
> other browser and found a work around? I'm at the point of needing to
> redesign part of a site or creating a redirect to another "Mac version" of
a
> site due to this inconsistency. It's very frustrating dealing with the
> browser and platform differences!
> --
> Alan Wilson
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