Yone wrote:
> I subscribe to several CSS newletters, and today one come into my
> mailbox with some caveats I had never heard of before about absolute
> font sizes, and especially about their unreadability on Macs.

Hm ... just tried a couple of pages of that have absolute font sizes, but both 
work in Mac IE 5.1.7 (Mac OS 9.1). The text came out rather small with IE set 
to 
treat the display as 72 DPI, but I reset its DPI value to 96 and now it's OK.

If this rumour were true, you'd expect a heck of a lot of sites to break on the 
Mac (as a great many use absolute font sizes) but I never saw any evidence of 
this.

> I had
> always heard that if you set pixel font sizes, IE users couldn't make
> them larger.

That is correct. Win IE 6 and earlier (maybe 7 also, never checked) does not 
scale absolute font sizes when you change the text size.
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