Thanks for the help, everyone. The site doesn't use Helvetica Neue, but when I do overlays, I can tell that there is a slight difference in some of the font, although I can still tell that the problem is the margin between the promos.
The one thing that the 10.6 machines I have access to have in common, though, is that they are used by Graphic Designers with super-large monitors. So I'm guessing that, even though it shouldn't be the font (since I've put heights and pixel margins on everything), it probably is. If I see any other spooky Mac behavior, I'll let you know. _____ Marissa Goldsmith Beaconfire Consulting 703-894-0080 x246 marissa.goldsm...@beaconfire.com -----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Seeger Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:34 PM To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Has anyone ever seen rendering differences between MacOS10.4, 10.5, and 10.6? Hi Marissa, With Chris on that, although there are so many factors - since you mentioned inherited code my second thought was border collapse issues. Did you use a CSS reset or due to the inherited code, adding to many variables to the mix? I use a non profit vendor for one of the associations I support and their CMS membership system layout requirement are tables for the main structure (not sure if we are allowed to mention specific vendor providers here.) First thing I did was hunt down to see if they had border collapse set. Fortunately we have access to the CSS (ahem have found display none and -9999 positioning a life saver for elements the vendor can not turn off.) I'm a long time Mac user (80s) and if one thing you could count on after Safari came out, the viewing experience is pretty consistent. But play with the font size in the prefs and all those "em" based themes for layout suddenly look odd. I used to always take that 16 default and put it to 12 until I figured out one of the WordPress popular themes relied solely on em layout and my viewing of them was toast. Best wishes, Nancy On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Goldsmith, Marissa wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My apologies in advance for not having a link to the Web site I am >> talking about - when the issue I noticed came up, I had to make changes >> to how everything was done, and so the example I'm talking about is no >> longer live. So please bear with me and my horrible line art. The gist >> of my question is, has anyone ever noticed CSS rendering differences >> (especially regarding margins) between the various Mac OS10 versions? >> You can read on if you want to see specifically what my problem is, but >> I couldn't find any information on this elsewhere, and was wondering if >> I had just created a perfect storm, or if this was a known issue. > > The usual reason is that different people have different defualt > font sizes in their browsers, and it has nothing to do with the OS > (or even the specific browser). > > -- > 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 [css-d@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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
