Daniel Beardsmore wrote: > 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. > >
Users control the Web. Not sure what if anything this has to do with CSS, but anyway--- All versions of win/ie: Internet Options> Accessibility> Ignore font-sizes> View> Text-size "largest" Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
