HTML {
font-size:xx-small;
}
BODY {
font-size:1.4em;
}No hacks, and seems to be consistent across the browsers I have tested. (I am using @import so you need not tell me how it looks in NN4)
Sean
On 15/09/2004, at 6:02 AM, haggis wrote:
Hello;
What I do is to set the font-size to 100% in my CSS "body" declaration and use percentages or em's for all other declarations, that way it matters not what size it is on the website or the user text sizing is, the user will always see it at his or her settings in their browser. If, by chance, I do get a message from anybody telling me it's too small to read I just send an e-mail to them telling them how to adjust their text size in the browser. Most of them are amazed that they can do that and are very grateful for the help and advise, ergo, you have an instant fan ... :o) fortunately I get very few of those kind of e-mails (actually only two in the last year, one from a guy with his first computer and the second from someone who thought he was a computer genius but didn't know you could adjust text sizes in his browser) ...
HTH's ...
Bill.
William Haggerty VWH Web Sales & Services www.vwh.ca
----- Original Message ----- From: "dunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:26 AM Subject: [WSG] I need advice with following font size standards and IE
Hi all,
I know by now the very strict rule of avoiding "px" font sizing as much as possible because IE will not size them up or down, but I'm finding an awful lot of people are using IE in the smaller and small size settings and not even knowing about it. In fact I had one guy tell me I should be redesigning a website he regularly visits because it's too small and on inspection I realised they were following the standards, its just that he had his IE set on text-size:smaller. My own IE opens as a default on smaller (its very frustrating)
The smaller settings seem irrelevant to most webpages, I have never gone to my netscape zoom and scaled a website down, because there's almost never any reason to.
So my question is, how do you design a website that will look compact and nice at a normal size, BUT -will not be tiny in IE for those who don't realise they have it set to small AND doesn't break the standard. I'm very tempted to stick a fixed font size at the start of my stylesheet. Is there another way?
Thanks guys, this is really bugging me.
Duncan
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