On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, jeffrey morin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson > <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Kevin Rodenhofer wrote: > > > > > This mock up looks exactly the same in IE 7-8, Safari 4, Chrome 5 and > > > Firefox 3.6.3 (all on a PC). > > > > No, it doesn't. It doesn't even look the same in FF if the > > font-size is different: <http://cfajohnson.com/testing/form.jpg>. > > Couldn't you technically declare your own font size in px and avoid this > issue of browser default font size? I am not saying it's a good idea to use > px based fonts, but it is doable and with the zoom functionality of newer > browsers you'd avoid breaking layouts.
That doesn't take into account viewers whose default font size is larger (using a minumum font size). I'm not going to zoom every time I come to a badly coded site, then return to the real size for another site. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
