Was just reading all the back and forth about text box sizes, and one
person or the other saying something to the effect there was no
standards about something.
Anyway. I agree that its impossible even with standards for a page to
look the same (if the page uses hard numbers for heights and widths).
And the problem with fonts from Platform to Platform are different.
Example 10 point Arial on a PC is only 72/96's as large on a Mac. in Mac
system there are 72 dot per inch.
on a PC the font would show as 10 pt. on a MAC if my math is correct
would be only 3/4 as much (about 7.5 pt). On the other hand if it is 10
point on a Mac it would be 1-1/3 x as big on a PC. (14 pt ? on PC).
In other words standards are an unattainable goal.
Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > I thought the whole idea about standard compatibility was about. was so
> > that if a person developed a page according to specs it would look
> > exactly In Netscape, Mozilla, IE, or any other browser and on any
> > platform PC, Unix, Mac, BEOS, Amiaga, whatever. The only deferences
> > being proportioned according to Monitor screen size screen resolution?
>
> If the browsers all support the standards without bugs, if you can find a
> font with the right characteristics on the users system and if you style
> the heck out of everything, you should be able to get pretty close to
> this.
>
> Gerv
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