Just to change the subject... At 05:12 PM 2/18/2009 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Check out what happens when those sizes meet 'minimum font size' and >other "barriers" across browser-land. >So, no, sorry, "proportional" is not guaranteed, no matter the method.
This is, in fact, *exactly* another issue I've been meaning to bring up here. As I mentioned a while ago (in my first "CSS Overlords" post a while back), I had various problems that I'd been trying to resolve related to line height, etc. Although I had everything looking perfectly fine for myself (just testing in IE and Firefox), these were brought to me when I showed the site to a friend of mine (who's on Mac, using Safari) -- my smaller font sizes weren't smaller, and in particular my superscripts were showing up at virtually "regular" sizes (but bumped up from the baseline, of course). As it turned out -- as I found out six months later -- the issue wasn't what I was trying (theoretically) to do, but rather that my friend had set his browser to accept only a minimum font size of 14pt, and so anything smaller than that just wasn't, well, smaller. Now, I realize that there's not much I can do if I want some block of text to be smaller, but my question here is what to do about superscripts -- does the fact that people can set a minimum font size mean that we might as well throw superscripts out the window (at least, if we don't want them to end up making a mess of our typography)? In that regard, rest assured that I'm not using superscript "all over the place", but I do like to use them in appropriate contexts, for example: - footnotes; - for numbers like "1st", "2nd", "3rd" (where the latter half, er, two-thirds is superscripted); - certain words like "Ye", "Dr", etc. If I put those parts in superscript -- and if a person has a minimum font size (which, of course, is smaller than the typically quite small size of superscripted characters) -- then things start going haywire. Not only do the superscripted look ridiculous (because they're so big), but it also *forces* the line height up for that particular line, regardless of what I've specified as my line height to be (in %). Is there anything that can be done about this -- without just throwing out superscript as an option entirely? Ron :? Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
