I'm working on a system that will address the biggest complaint about the Low End Mac site -- some people find our fonts "too big." (We use their default font size -- hey, we're not the ones with the power to change it!)
I've been reading and researching and testing. It looks like best practice is to specify size in pixels, and I've created six different style sheets using 10px to 18px as the normal text size. It looks gorgeous, and I can implement it with PHP and a cookie -- no need for Javascript on the user's computer. It's nearly perfect. Nearly. And that's where I've run stuck. That's where I need help. On my sample pages, all linked from <http://lowendmac.com/css/>, I show the 6 header sizes, display sample lines of text in the 6 optional sizes, and also include one paragraph where size="-1" and another where size="-2" -- and with the smaller 2 or 3 style sheets, one or both of these may actually be *larger* than the base font. This is true in both Safari and IE 5.2; after seeing that, I don't even want to test any further. Needless to say, I'm frustrated. In earlier testing years ago, I found that this was the only method of specifying font sizes that worked consistently between browsers -- important when you're Low End Mac and you may have visitors on SE/30s and Color Classics with positively ancient browsers. I have thousands of pages created that use size="-1" for a few things and size="-2" for the copyright notice. I don't want to change that, since it's also the way Claris Home Page normally specifies type scaling and the method that works across the broadest range of browsers. That said, it seems to be an obstacle to giving users the ability to set a standard font size on our website. I can't go to classes without breaking the site on pre-CSS browsers, which would be the obvious solution. Anyone run into this? Any suggestions on how to make it work? Thanks! -- Dan Knight, president /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Cobweb Publishing, Inc. \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://cobwebpublishing.com X No Word docs in email http://lowendmac.com / \ Respect Open Standards! <http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9910/27.deb.shtml> -- Mac Webmasters is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics has Lasso, Filemaker, and FileMaker Server on Sale! High Technology for low prices. http://www.smalldog.com Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Webmasters info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macweb.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac.webmasters%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
