On 2008/05/19 19:10 (GMT-0400) Michael B Allen apparently typed: > Why does IE 6 display font-size: medium larger than the default font? > I thought "medium" was the default.
> http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/p1.html > Meaning if I remove the font-size setting below, the text is the > default in size. > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> ... > Ideas? 1-Put IE in standards mode if you want it to render medium as 12pt nominal. The doctype cannot be preceded by anything whatsoever if you want IE in standards mode. 2-Contrary to what many think, the default default in IE is NOT 16px. The IE default is 12pt nominal. The px size of 12pt depends on system DPI. Standard system DPI is 96, while 120 DPI is "large fonts". When DPI is 96, 12pt=16px, but when DPI is 120, 12pt=20px (25% larger fonts). People often set "large fonts" because they want larger fonts, but also OEM laptops typically have large fonts set on higher resolution models in order that people might actually buy them. When DPI needs a higher setting due to high resolution but doesn't have it set, only the people with the best eyes will consider buying them. 3-Make sure IE's text sizer is actually set to medium. -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
