Sent by Keith Underdown on 8 August 2002 11:11
Reading the thread on font-size keywords raised all sorts of alarm bells
about how my site might be working in older browsers! Roughly half my hits
are IE5 (or IE5 spoofers). I've tried to keep away from stuff like
positioning that would mess things up under some browsers.
I've just tried the
>Dive into Accessibility font-keywords hackery (to quote Brandon)
and all hell has broken loose! All sorts of things that were working (like
line-height not being specified anywhere and defaulting nicely) no-longer
work.
My technique, following on earlier discussions, was to set body
{font-size:1em;} and then use % to vary the size in other styles; e.g. h1
{ font-size: 140%;}. This allows sensible resizing in all the browsers I
test in (IE6, Op6, Moz latest) on W2000. In terms of the Dive into
Accessibility cast of characters I'm Lillian and even with reading glasses I
find many sites designed by those with younger eyes uncomfortable to read,
hence the larger than usual font-size - a deliberate design decision. I'm
going to ignore the suggestions of the other thread unless you good people
with access to older browsers and other platforms can show that the resizing
works badly with them. It should behave pretty fluidly as a two-column
layout.
I use import so N4 should be unstyled but it should work (I ought to change
the flow so that content comes before navigation though).
I'd be grateful if you could give my site the once over, especially but not
exclusively on older browsers and on platforms other than W2000. I've tried
it on Op6, IE6 and recent Mozilla. There are a few oddities (like an
enormous amount of white space before the footer in Moz) but I'd like to
know if it grossly misbehaves under other circumstances.
URL below. Style sheet www.cofe-st-thomas-dudley.org.uk/style_sheet.css
TIA
Keith
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Keith Underdown
St Thomas Dudley Webmaster
Publicity Officer Spire Appeal Committee
www.cofe-st-thomas-dudley.org.uk
