I've had to worry
about how different browsers render different screen sizes for text for
years. I don't want to use "px" for font-size as IE will cripple the
browsers "VIEW, Text Size" control. We need to keep the text-size browser
control fully operational for accessibility and usability. At the same
time, we want text-laden pages to render "approximately" the same across all
browsers on page load, normal text-viewing-size.
My reference on the
subject has been the work of Owen Briggs:
This work gets
close, but for my purposes, it could be improved. Firefox will always
renders text noticeably larger than IE and these are the two most
significant browsers in our user base. The page layouts differ more than I
would like.
Using _javascript_, it
might be possible to get a better match in IE and Firefox text-size
by detecting the browser type and setStyle on the body {font-size:
value} to a browser-specific setting such that the "normal" rendering size was
the same across all browsers.
Before I go off and
invent the wheel again; has anyone seen anything like this done
elsewhere?
Sam
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