david wrote: > 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.
Sorry, "perfect web size" should have been "perfect FONT size". Just can't type today! -- 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/
