>>> At what resolution are you comparing font sizes? 1280x1024 on a 20 inch laptop Firefox 3.0.3
> At 96dpi Firefox has slightly larger font size than IE, probably because > of different font-size rounding - +/- 1px difference. Hitting the > middle-ground is easy enough on 96dpi, but not relevant if resolution is > 120dpi. > Don't think Firefox compensates - changes to larger base for font-size - > on 120dpi, but IE does. Good point. Yes that seems to be the case. One thing we do in these situations, is create a detection script for each main browser. If you want to get detailed, this is how you can control it, with multiple browsers. > Browsers are at different stages for how to handle resolution-induced > problems and differences, so any solution _we_ introduce now is likely > to break as new browser-versions arrive. What we do is just update the style sheet then for new browser releases. Its not too hard. Depends on how detailed you want to be. Kelly Sigethy - Frynge.com Web Design - Hosting - Advertising http://www.frynge.com 1-403-251-9486 (Calgary) 1-866-331-9684 (Toll Free - Canada and the USA) +44 (0)8717 206 505 (United Kingdom) Kelly Sigethy - Frynge.com Web Design - Hosting - Advertising http://www.frynge.com 1-403-251-9486 (Calgary) 1-866-331-9684 (Toll Free - Canada and the USA) +44 (0)8717 206 505 (United Kingdom) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frynge Customer Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ed Pybus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "CSS-D" <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] site check >>> http://www.slrecords.net/new.php > > Frynge Customer Support wrote: >> Fix your style sheets for firefox, the fonts display quite a bit smaller >> for that browser. > > At what resolution are you comparing font sizes? > > At 96dpi Firefox has slightly larger font size than IE, probably because > of different font-size rounding - +/- 1px difference. Hitting the > middle-ground is easy enough on 96dpi, but not relevant if resolution is > 120dpi. > > Don't think Firefox compensates - changes to larger base for font-size - > on 120dpi, but IE does. > >> You can set a detection script to detect firefox or msie and have a style >> sheet for both > > Serving browsers different stylesheets is likely to create more problems > than it solves. > > Browsers are at different stages for how to handle resolution-induced > problems and differences, so any solution _we_ introduce now is likely > to break as new browser-versions arrive. > > We ma have to split between resolutions - one way or another, and > perform extensive cross-browser testing on all resolutions. > > CSS mediaqueries may solve such resolution-dependent cases, but I don't > think Gecko supports those yet. Any news on that? > > IE doesn't support mediaqueries, and it will only work if we can also > affect the browser's base for font-size - which isn't such a good idea > IMO. > > Conclusion: better leave font-size more or less as is - for all > browsers, for now. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no
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