Thank you, Felix. CSS now validated and your technical complaint largely dealt with. Re. your own complaint, though, are you recommending a % only setting for text size or is small etc OK too? I understand not to use px or other absolute sizes. Tony.
On 26 Jun 2006, at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 10 > Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:33:16 -0400 > From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [css-d] Font not looking consistent across browsers > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 06/06/25 17:35 (GMT-0400) Tony Balazs apparently typed: > >> I'd be very grateful if you could check out > >> http://www.snowflakeschool.org.uk > >> where fonts are not looking consistent across browsers. I want a >> small size verdana look and get it in Camino Mac OS X but in most >> other browsers the font doesn't come out right and looks horrible in >> my Win/IE6. I have reproduced the CSS below and perhaps someone can >> see what is going wrong. Perhaps I have font-family instead of font >> somewhere or vice-versa? > > Valid CSS is no less important than valid HTML. Validate it: > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator > > That will technically correct your complaint, but it won't correct my > complaint. If you like small text, set your own browser so that's what > you get. Don't impose undersize body and P text on your visitors. > They're the only ones on position to determine the best size for what > shows up in their browser viewports. They do it in their browser > preference settings. Imposing arbitrary size reductions on body and > P is > telling them they're wrong. That's rude, especially since they aren't > wrong. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/bigdefaults.html > -- > "All have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 NIV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
