Julia wrote:
 
> Forgive my ignorance, but this hack has been referred to on the excellent
> Browser Bugs page on the WIKI:
 
> <URL: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BrowserBugs >
 
> body {font-size: small;
>               voice-family: "\"}\"";
>               voice-family: inherit;
>               font-size: medium;}
 
> and I have also seen it in use on other websites:
 
> My question is, which size is for IE6 standards mode, and which one for IE5?
> In other words, does this hack produce a font-size of small or medium?  (2
> or 3 as in the WIKI example)

The text preceding what you quoted is intended to convey the message
that that ruleset will cause the same size text to be rendered regardless
of browser. That would be 12pt/16px in windoze systems using nothing but
defaults for any of IE4, IE5, IE6, Firefox or Mozilla. That's because
standards-compliant browsers give priority to the last applicable rule,
and aren't snowed by the voice-family hack into thinking the rule is
over before reaching the final rule (medium) as are non-compliant old IE
versions.

Being a wiki, anyone is free edit as he/she sees fit. Feel free to do so
if you can come up with better language while remaining concise.
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but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God."
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