Re: Variable text sizes and CSS

Boy, did you justmiss a big discussion on the subject.  Search the archives
for the last 2 weeks...:).

Essentially:

* points display with a fair amount of consistancy across platforms, but are
not user-resizable.

* ems are next best in consistancy, and are resizable, but there is a very
drastic difference in the way Macs and Windows handle them, with Macs
dissplaying them much (too much ) smaller.


The only realistic resolutions were:

* use points for static pages if you wish to favor Mac users over those with
accessiblity issues.

* use ems if you wish to favor accessibility issues over Mac users (Mac
users *can* resize in this instance, but that is a fairly big inconvenience)

* sniff the OS with JS or PHP or something similar, and deliver either a
Windows stylesheet or a non-Windows stylesheet (the idea here is that Wndows
uses a decidedly larger default font size than Linux or Mac, so we can use a
.8em base for Win and a 1.0 for the others.)

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>

I've received one or two customer complaints that our website's fonts are
too small for them to read, and although they have the latest version of
their browser, they can't adjust the font size to their liking because I
am using Cascading Style Sheets.  As far as I know, we're at an
impasse.  I can't simply discard my style sheets for the sake of one or
two people, but at that the same time I'd like to try to accommodate these
people if possible.

Am I missing something here?  Is there a way to both designate the size of
your fonts using CSS and also allow visitors to adjust the font size and
override my settings?  It does not appear so.

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