Anderson, Eric wrote:
> I understand companies have policies about installing unapproved 3rd
> party software. But most sane companies should have some channel to get
> software approved that is needed. If they have hired a disabled person
> who has low vision problems and they are unwilling to
> Default font sizes: Firefox 18px, IE 16pt. This amounts to about 2px of
> difference in the defaults
> Setting body {font-size:12px} (or any fixed size) will set both IE and
> Firefox identical display sizes. To avoid diminishing the accessibility,
a
> user control should be provided on the pa
I wrote a test scrip which I've included below. I was curious how Firefox
and IE handled default text sizes and the user changing the text size.
Here's the beef:
Default font sizes: Firefox 18px, IE 16pt. This amounts to about 2px of
difference in the defaults No percentage, e.g., body {font-s
Taking advice from the noodle incident:
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html
For the last few years I've always set Body to 76% and the all other
font size rules use ems.
Since then I've not had to worry about font sizes ever again.
On 06/07/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTE
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Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing
I didn't see any reference to using pt for fonts. I use pt for most
of my fonts and sizes seem
:49 PM
To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing
I didn't see any reference to using pt for fonts. I use pt for most
of my fonts and sizes seem the same across browsers. Is there some
big bad reason for not using pt for fonts that I'm unaware of
July 05, 2006 1:48 PM
To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing
I didn't see any reference to using pt for fonts. I use pt for most
of my fonts and sizes seem the same across browsers. Is there some
big bad reason for not using pt for fonts that I'm una
I didn't see any reference to using pt for fonts. I use pt for most
of my fonts and sizes seem the same across browsers. Is there some
big bad reason for not using pt for fonts that I'm unaware of?
On 7/5/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've had to worry about how different browsers rend
Title: Message
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 accessibil
