Ed Seehouse wrote:
> On 3/25/07, Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> 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.
>> [...]
>> I'd be interested in hearing anyones results / bugs / opinions about
>> this.
>>
>
> My opinion is that it is madness.
>
Hi all,
Here I can half agree.
The goal of the script was: getting IE to behave as a decent browser.
Kind of hack: that's not too bad (if it is working & usable in different
circumstances) - agree to this intention!
But "getting complete control over font sizes" is a complete other story
(and not targeted / accomplished by this script anyway). ;-)
> The web is not paper.
>
> It never will be paper.
>
> The web, in contrast to paper [...]
>
This I can agree from my heart. See also: "The Graphical Designer and
the CSS Zen Guru"; a small story about perception.
Link <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/guru-1.htm>
To come back on topic, I've made 3 test pages:
1. Plain setting of the body in em.
2. Pasted Lee's javascript method.
3. The css fix as Georg and others mentioned before.
Start is here
<http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-resize-plain.htm>.
To be seen in IE. - Now everybody can make an independent conclusion. :-)
Greetings,
francky
PS-1:
The default font-size ("normal" browser setting) in these pages is (a)
the same in the 3 pages, and (b) much smaller than I should advise to
use in real world. I've taken the size of Lee's example - just to make
it possible to compare and to see the variation in IE deviation from the
medium size.
PS-2:
There is a lot of material about web font sizing in the "Sizing Text"
pages of the the css-d Wiki. <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/>
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