Re: CSS Font Sizes and Macs

I tried these as well, with predictable results.

I can think of only two possiblities so far that service all crowds:

1) Use a scripting language to determine browser/OS combinations and deliver
the style sheet accordingly.

2) (untested except in IE5.5 on Windows) Set the basic font for the page in
the body description using pixels, and then use the variable ems to control
the subsequent displays within that document.

Since ems use the parent element to set their base, they will follow adjust
according to the parent.  The problem here, of course, is that I am deciding
what the largest default value of the page is anyway, by setting that size
in the body.

This is against everything I believe right regarding accessibility.

I can't leave out Mac users because my clients consist of them, and I can't
leave out people with accessiblity issues because it is against every policy
I have on the subject.

I am stringly leaning toward using the first option.  I doubt it would take
more than a few lines of PHP to accomplish this.

D


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Jean Pedersen" <rjp(at)mail.tele.dk>



yes... i find that small and x-small and xx-small give netscape vs ie
problems, but going larger is okay (if i remember correctly)  basically
xxsmall is okay on ie but unreadable on netscape. and i had a client who
demanded it that tiny.  urgh. some just dont listen...
but i like using relative sizes in case a user has it set higher for
reasons of poor eye sight etc.

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