RE: IE5 for Mac & dpi preference

Dan:

A normal font size would be 1em, so 10em would be much larger than normal.
I'm one of those people who thinks the em unit should be part of "best
practice" standards, and I use the following CSS to achieve smaller size:

SMALLFONT  {
font-size: .85em}

Keith Purtell, Web Designer
VantageMed Corporation


> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:22:57 EDT
> From: WebProgrmr(at)aol.com
> Subject: IE5 for Mac & dpi preference
>
> IE5 for Mac has the ability to change the preference dpi.  A
> user of my web
> site has come to me after changing his prefs from the default
> (96dpi) to
> 72dpi.  The text is now way too small to read.
>
> I define the fonts with external stylesheets...
> Basically, it's 10pt Arial that he's not getting good mileage
> out of.  I've
> tried 10ems, and 10px with no luck.  I need to keep the font
> size relatively
> small or I'll get a lot of undesirable word wrapping.

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