Dan, My first thought is to stop using the "-#" parts and do just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.
I have found, in my designing of d3hoops.com and d3football.com, that using the -# portion it will make everything go askew between browsers (most noticeably IE for Windows to IE for Mac). Going to a standard the sites then start looking the same between browsers. The 'standard' for Headers is size 3, text is size 4 and headlines are size 2. Have you considered doing this on the sites? -- RC At 3:49 PM -0500 3/2/03, Dan Knight wrote: >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 -- Ryan Coleman Coleman Web/Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cwis.biz "Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it." - Walt Whitman "Polls don't measure who turns out... Polls never measure who turns out." -- Paul Wellstone, 1990 -- 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
