Chris F.A. Johnson 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).
Or the fact that 16px on a 1024x768 display looks a lot bigger than 16px on a 1600x1440 display ... > I'm not going to zoom every time I come to a badly coded site, then > return to the real size for another site. Sometimes I do, if I'm at the site to read information. If they're just trying to sell me something, I don't zoom: I go elsewhere. -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
