On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:14:16AM +0100, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > Mac's show the text at about 1 size smaller than on other machines, for > whatever reason. SO for example, looking at Size 2 on a Mac looks the > same size as looking at Size 1 on a PC. Size 1 is almost unreadable on a > Mac (which is a bugger, cos its the nicest looking size on a PC).
Size 1 is unreadable on Netscape on almost all non-Windows platforms (and why not, since it's the smallest there is) - especially when someone goes and says <font size=1 face="Arial"> which results in microscopic typewriter-style font on Unix platforms. The fact that Windows platforms tend to display the fonts too large is a big pain because it makes people feel they have to mess with the font size. However, - The web author should *not* be messing with font sizes except when a small section of text actually needs to be relatively smaller or larger than the main text body (in which case <small> or <big> is appropriate but <font size="-n"> or <font size="+n"> is acceptable). - Font sizes are the viewer's problem, not the web author's problem. I can change and indeed have changed the default font size in Netscape to one that I consider the most readable, so if you change it then you are making your page less readable to me. Is that what you want? - Since I can change the font sizes at will, if you write stuff that depends on what size the font is then it will royally screw up when I change it. Don't do it. imc
