> On 05.01.2006 23:54, Duckworth, Nigel wrote: >> Ian said: >> >>>But why does 1em Verdana look so small? > > I don't know. If you really want to know it, you need to ask the author > of the site. > >> >> The 1em is relative to 10px. >> > > This is widely misunderstood. > The em unit isn't relative to pixels at all. >
I think what was meant is that the creator of the site has specified 1em to be equivalent to 10px. > Since MSIE/PC is working internally in points, > it's default font size is always 12pt. > Actually, all modern browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, Konqueror) start with a "factory setting" font-size of 16px, meaning 1em translates to 16px (where pixel is defined as in the CSS2 standard [1]). I think this is why the question was originally raised; if the page in question was starting from the default browser settings, one would expect 1em to equal 16px. > 12 points could be 12 pixels as well as 20 pixels. > 1 point is (approximately) 1/72 of an inch. It's a centuries-old printers measure, and how it translates to relative length units such as pixels is entirely down to how the browser maps real-world measurements like pt, in and cm to the output device - see the discussion of "absolute length units" at [1]. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
