On 2008/10/19 18:07 (GMT-0400) Gunlaug Sørtun composed: > Frynge Customer Support wrote:
>> On 2008/10/18 17:42 (GMT-0400) Ed Pybus composed: >>> I've just kinda finished my (first) new website - if anyone fancies >>> giving a check over and letting me know of any problems they see that'd >>> be much appreciated. >>> http://www.slrecords.net/new.php >> ... firefox, the fonts display quite a bit >> smaller for that browser. Only when the desktop's DPI is not 96, or when the user is not using browser OEM font size defaults. > ...Hitting the > middle-ground is easy enough on 96dpi, but not relevant if resolution is > 120dpi. Or any other non-96 DPI, or any environment where the user, as is his prerogative, has adjusted his defaults or DPI to suit his preference, or even if he found them acceptable as-is, and left them alone. > Don't think Firefox compensates - changes to larger base for font-size - > on 120dpi, but IE does. Correct, and not just for 120 DPI, as there are other DPI options in Windows besides 96 & 120. In addition, on Linux, it is common for the X desktop to apply a real-world _correct_ DPI, rather than an arbitrarily assumed DPI. The Konqueror browser, and others besides IE, use defaults sized in pt, which makes their behavior similar to IE in being affected by DPI, while page text in Firefox and SeaMonkey is only affected by DPI if CSS font sizing is applied in pt. > Conclusion: better leave font-size more or less as is - for all > browsers, for now. Sort of. Right now its text is rudely sized to a fraction of what the user prefers. The body text is CSS-sized to only 64% of the size the user prefers. CSS size is not a size in a real sense, but only a nominal size. 80% CSS size is applied to both text height _and_ text width, with the resulting size a function of the square of 80% = 64%. That the resulting content text is undersized, the pervasive condition of today's web, can be seen by looking at the subject page in the context of other pages that respect user font size preference settings, as here: http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-slreco1.html http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-slreco1.jpg Note how much smaller is the content text compared to the browser's UI text, which itself is a bit smaller that the browser's content default size. -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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/
