"Jonas Sicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mo�biusStrip wrote: > >>a different size in IE (view -> text size), a font which is set to 12 px > >>will stay at 12 px (relative to the current resolution) > > > > > > We consider that a bug in IE. > > > > -Boris > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Great bug though, very useful. > > No its not, it's one of the bigger reasons I don't use IE. For some > reason many sites take pleasure in using tiny hard-to-read fonts, which > is easily remedied in mozilla by zooming the text. People using IE are > forced to squint their eyes or go to a different site. > > Best Regards, > Jonas Sicking
>From what I understand is that CSS was introduced so that it would give more control over how a web page looks. So for example, before CSS there was no way dynamically generating a font face to the user. You would need to create a graphic image of the text in question. Same thing with the size of the font, browsers like IE for win32 will lock the size of a font using the unit "px". This could be a bad thing for the end-user, but that's irrelevant, the point is about control. If a web designer feels like making a font a particular locked size then he/she should have that option. (AND THEY DO, the can juse make a graphic of the text. Unless you're using Opera, the size of the graphic will not change.) If a designer wants to make the text size relative to what then enduser want's then they can change to a different unit, or an absolute size like x-small or whatever. Once again, the issue here is about control over the layout of the page. And sites are made for a specific audience. Artistic sites like http://www.snarg.net need to maintain control over how their site looks, CSS should give them that kind of control. So the fact that IE for win32 gives you an option to make BOTH a static text size and a relative one using CSS, could be considered a GOOD thing, not bad. Where as you guys consider it a bug, a developer of the IE for Win32 would disagree. Since this is issue over this particular part of CSS is just a matter of opinion, this is moot issue. _______________________________________________ mozilla-layout mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-layout
