Paul Novitski wrote: > At 3/25/2007 02:01 PM, Lee Powell wrote: >> This weekend I've been working on a way of getting complete control >> over font sizes without IE's text-resize shrinking text beyond all >> readable sizes. >> >> What I discovered was: >> >> px - perfect control using px's to define font sizes, however >> prevents IE/Win from text resizing. >> em - almost perfect control using em, although when text-resizing in >> IE/Win to small and extra small can cause unreadibility. >> keywords - less than perfect control, however IE/Win never text- >> resizes smaller than 9px. >> >> So while playing around with various options, I discovered a way that >> we might be able to fix IE/Win's text-resizing problems while still >> having 'almost' perfect control over font sizes. >> >> My solution at presents includes: >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> >> >> >> H3 - Heading >> >> >> >> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi >> pellentesque interdum augue. Aenean a ante. Pellentesque ut nulla in >> dui lacinia ultricies. Nam nibh metus, venenatis nec, eleifend non, >> feugiat non, nibh. Maecenas commodo fermentum magna. Duis tincidunt >> viverra sem. Donec id orci. >> >> >> I understand the solution involves using javascript to achieve a >> solution, however when the document is viewed by browsers that do not >> support the DOM, it simply reverts back the 'small' keyword, which is >> only a fraction larger than the font-size we're defining in the >> javascript. So understandably, you'd select the closest size keyword >> to the default font-size you're allocating in the javascript. >> >> I believe the solution fixes the IE/Win text resizing issue, while >> providing control over our default font size. > > > Hi Lee, > > I'd like to read and respond to your technique but I can't see any > javascript in the source code for your email, presumably stripped out > by virus protection or email client. Please post your example on a > server and post its URL. Embedding examples of HTML and active > javascript in email is probably always a mistake... > > If your technique depends on javascript, I suggest that it isn't > merely browsers that don't support the DOM that won't execute it but > also modern browsers with scripting turned off, whether by user > preference, corporate mandate, or other reasons. I mention this > merely to indicate that the population your technique excludes is > probably larger than you imagine.
Also, I wonder what happens when a visitor with Javascript enabled has a minimum font size set larger than whatever value your Javascript calculates? Personally, I think that no site designer can pick a "perfect web size" because the perfect size depends on the vision, display and preferences of the VISITOR. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
