On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, jeffrey morin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson > <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, jeffrey morin wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson > > > <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Kevin Rodenhofer wrote: > > > > > > > > > This mock up looks exactly the same in IE 7-8, Safari 4, Chrome 5 and > > > > > Firefox 3.6.3 (all on a PC). > > > > > > > > No, it doesn't. It doesn't even look the same in FF if the > > > > font-size is different: <http://cfajohnson.com/testing/form.jpg>. > > > > > > Couldn't you technically declare your own font size in px and avoid this > > > issue of browser default font size? I am not saying it's a good idea to > > use > > > px based fonts, but it is doable and with the zoom functionality of newer > > > browsers you'd avoid breaking layouts. > > > > That doesn't take into account viewers whose default font size is > > larger (using a minumum font size). > > > > I'm not going to zoom every time I come to a badly coded site, then > > return to the real size for another site. > > > > That's not what I'm suggesting. I never really dug into this issue in great > detail before but I just tested my company's site with different default > font sizes and the text set in px doesn't change size. Only the text that > has fonts set in em or % change. So it seems to me that setting in px would > make it that size for everyone. The site I am testing with has a reset > stylesheet but it decalres font-size: 100% so I can't see that affecting it. > Am I missing something?
You must be using MSIE. That is, AFAIK, the only browser that doesn't resize fonts specified in px: it leaves them unreadably small. If you don't want people to read your text, that's fine. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
