Re: Font Size Mystery (Windows)

Hi Anna,

Activity on this list happens in hiccups. I didn't get any info and then,
hiccup. Then it stays quiet. Do not fear. Lots of people are watching.

I'm no CSS expert (and if I'm wrong I'm sure somebody will correct
me<wink>), but I think it's just that the default font on the Mac is
different. I looked at your style sheet and you don't explicitly set a size
for the TD or "li a" (though I've had trouble with NN with this).

When I change browser font size, the text in question changes size while the
rest (the CSS-specified text) does not.

That might be it.

Also, you can save a few bytes of space by altering your JavaScript a
little. You really are only testing for two conditions--Netscape and not
Netscape (unless you want to exclude, say Opera).

Andrew
Viewed in IE5.5, Win98

from
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

if ((navigator.appName == "WebTV")) {
 document.write("<link rel=stylesheet
href=\"http://www.dustystrings.com/explorer.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\">"); }

else if ((navigator.appName == "Netscape")) {
 document.write("<link rel=stylesheet
href=\"http://www.dustystrings.com/netscape.css\" type=\"text/css\">"); }

else {
 document.write("<LINK REL=stylesheet
href=\"http://www.dustystrings.com/explorer.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\">"); }

// -->
</SCRIPT>


to

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

if (navigator.appName = "Netscape") {
  document.write("<link rel=stylesheet
href=\"http://www.dustystrings.com/netscape.css\" type=\"text/css\">");
} else {
 document.write("<LINK REL=stylesheet
href=\"http://www.dustystrings.com/explorer.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\">"); }

// -->
</SCRIPT>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Peekstok" <apeekstok(at)home.com>
To: <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Font Size Mystery (Windows)


>
> Hello,
>
> I haven't seen any activity on this list since joining last week, but hope
> someone is out there who can help with a mystery I've encountered.
>
> I designed a site using CSS for a client (www.dustystrings.com).
>
> I used javascript to link to a style sheet depending on browser type.
> Everything works fine on my Mac, but Windows users all seem to see a
> different text font size depending on whether the text is in a table or
not.
> Also, text in tables responds to text size increase/decrease commands as
> expected, while text outside of tables does not.
>
> An example might be the price list located at
> http://www.dustystrings.com/building/harp_prices.shtml
>
> I can't be certain because I don't have a Windows machine, but I believe
> that on such machines the text at the top of the page, before the first
> table tag, is a different size than that in the table below, and is
> unresponsive to font change commands, while the text in the table is
> responsive.
>
> This seems to be the case whether the viewer is using Netscape, Explorer,
or
> the AOL browser, but only with Windows (including NT).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Anna Peekstok
> Seattle, WA
>

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