On 2007/04/15 14:28 (GMT-0400) Suzanne Bernard apparently typed: >> I'd appreciate it if anyone who has time could look at >> http://www.nycss.org/ and tell me why the font sizes are so different >> in IE6 and Firefox.
Did you recently change computers? Do you test on more than one? If so, are they all configured "the same"? > I've had to reduce some font > sized in the stylesheet to make the page presentable in IE, which makes it > really tiny in Firefox. Any other suggestions appreciated. Quirks mode doctype is only one way FF and IE can render text sizes differently. If I'm right about your current situation, I've replicated it a different way in this screenshot: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/suzabe1.jpg Note in it that the key to the difference can be seen just above the start menu. Page content in FF does not change according to that system setting, while in IE it does. That's because the "Large Fonts" setting changes IE's 12pt default from 16px to 20px, while the FF default stays at 16px unless the user changes it in FF prefs. Users have ultimate control, whether they exercise it or not. With wacko Clagnut's 62.5% body font-size that you use, either of two little pref changes in FF will even up the two, either changing the FF default from 16px to IE's [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20px, or a minimum setting as you can see here: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/suzabe2.jpg . Of course, you have no control over whether any user makes those changes, or related others. So the right thing to do is undo your adjustment for "too big" text in IE, as people using the "Large Fonts" setting generally are doing so for the reason that it would be too small otherwise. Let the users, those in overwhelming best position to do so, choose how big is appropriate, accepting their decisions via either "font-size: 100%" or no font-size at all specified in body. Whether text is too big or too small or just right in your local environment has only random bearing on what it is elsewhere. -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 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 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/
