David Hucklesby wrote Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:08:03 -0800: > In an attempt to inject something factual into this debate, a quick > calculation for my 15" 1440 x 1050 laptop tells me that a 10px font size > is the same size as (poorly cast) 6pt type on paper. 16px is 9.6pt. > 1pt = 1/72". > I just changed Windows xp to 120 dpi, but this does not appear to have > altered the text size in Firefox,
That's the expected result of a UA that uses px for user settings. FF does that in part because it offers the user finer grained control of size, particularly as resolution is increased. Changing screen resolution will change the physical size of FF's default, but changing DPI will not > but has increased it 25% in IE That's the expected result of a UA that uses pt for user settings. Most apps size text in pt. Theoretically, pt is a real life physical size. When you adjust dpi you're theoretically trying to get a correct result in pt and every other physical size unit. Check here http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/PointsDemo.html and see whether FF or IE or both are doing a good job with the sizes now that you've changed to 120. According to http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.html you're now seeing about as close to accurate pt sizes as anyone ever gets windoze to do. > - so I > set IE to "smaller" to compensate. Why? -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/auth ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
