On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:04 PM, jeffrey morin wrote: > I have a question regarding the differences in font-size I see between > Safari 3 and FF2. I am attempting to use the Blueprint CSS and when I > customize my font sizes using em Safari seems to render the text > slightly > larger than FF2 (haven't checked any IE yet). Does anyone know what > could be > the cause of this? I have never quite been able to get this right > but really > don't want to use straight px to declare font-size. I am using a 15" > mac > book pro to develop. Any advice or personal experience with this > would be > great. Thanks! Yes it happens. Blame the old QuickDraw technology used by Fx 2 (Mac)… Fx3 (Mac) renders text with Atsui, the same way as WebKit does. It is not the only factor: differences in how rendering engines round off to the nearest pixels also play a role and differences in subpixel smoothing. For some fonts, Safari 'cheats' a little bit, and kinda uses a hack to match the font-metrics of Times, Helvetica, Courier,... to match their counterparts on Windows (Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New,...) – it is not limited to those 3 fonts.
And there are some slight differences between 10.4 and 10.5 as well. Most of the time you won't notice them though. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
