Thanks Philippe, What do you think of using percentages to declare fonts? Any better luck with that? I was involved in a development project once where they used all percentages and IE6 didn't like it but for this project I am not having to develop for ie6 at all (joy oh joy!)
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/
