On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Stephen Jungels wrote:
> Now I find that everything looks as expected in Firefox. In IE 6, the main
> content font-size is a little too large.
It depends on matters of taste and eyesight etc. whether it is too large,
but it's definitely larger than on Firefox, with factory settings. The
reason is that you use sizes that are ultimately relative to the
browser's basic font size. That size is smaller on Firefox than on IE, in
typical conditions.
The variation is more or less a basic feature of the approach you have
used; it's not an undesired side effect but part of the goal.
> 1. Is this the best I can do or is there a way to make all three browsers
> look like Firefox?
You can set body { font-size: 15px; }, but then you are taking a different
approach entirely.
> 2. For usability, is it more important to enable font-resizing in IE, or
> to get the right size in all three browsers?
I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list and
elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between "usability" and "right
size", since usability means that there is no right size.
If you want a default font size in pixels (the "right size") _and_ font
scalability on IE (i.e., let users override the "right size"), then the
practical approach is probably the inclusion of some scripting
(client-side or server-side) that lets the user change the font size by
clicking on a button, for example. It's not easy, though, since to be
convenient, it would have to work using server-side scripting and cookies
so that the user only needs to set the font size _once_ for the site.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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