On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Amal Bala wrote:
I have achieved my goal of controlling text size (and thus spacing) in
Internet Explorer, but when I visited my site on a Mac, which uses
Safari as the browser, I realized the spacing and sizing get
distorted. In other words, the style sheet seems not to work at all.
Is there something special I need to do so the style sheet works on
Mac browsers as well as PCs?
Hi Amal,
There's nothing special you need to do to support Safari, Firefox,
Opera (usually), and so forth. In general, each of these browsers
provideds good support for the W3C standards for HTML and CSS. It's
IE that provides pretty poor support, so we usually have to modify
our stylesheets to account for IE's quirks.
As you continue to develop your CSS skills, I'd actually recommend
starting by developing on Firefox, since it should respond
predictably to your changes, and then work around IE's quirks.
As for font sizing, I should preface my remarks by saying that fonts
are always going to be different between browsers and platforms. You
shouldn't expect pixel-perfect accuracy, but should design so that
your site looks good and won't break in a variety of situations. Dan
Cederholm's book Bulletproof Web Design has some great information
on this.
I took a look at your site, and saw that you're using points for font
sizing. Points are great for print, but they're pretty lousy for web
design. Pixels are a bit better, but you can't resize pixels with IE,
so visitors reading the text are out of luck. Relative units (small,
medium, large; ems, and percentages) are usually the way to go.
I'd suggest setting a base font size for your document like this:
body { font-size: small; }
And then modifying the elements using ems or percentages, like this:
h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }
or
h2 { font-size: 150%; }
Hope that helps!
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Matthew Levine (http://www.infocraft.com/)
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