Sent by Philippe Wittenbergh on 2 March 2003 00:12
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 12:49 AM, Frank Schaap wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>> One thing in comparison to your screenshots is that the fonts on the
>> mac
>> show up a lot smaller. I had to increase my text size just to be
>> able to
>> see some of it. That's probably more an inherent issue in the
>> differences
>> between the ways that macs and pcs display fonts, and may not have
>> much of
>> a solution.
>
> Strange. I'm using the text sizing method as described by Owen Briggs
> here:
>
> http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/
> incremental_differences.html
>
> On this page he shows how the text sizes remain almost exactly the
> same in both Win and Mac browsers, but he mentions he doesn't have OS
> X. Does OS X react differently to this sizing method than OS 9?
There is no difference between the 2 OS.
Of course, using Owen's method, the font-size will depend on the user's
default setting. Assume the user has set his/her defaults to 50px in
the browser, the text of your pages will look bigger then if a user set
the font-size to, say, 16px (medium in IE6win).
I had a look at your pages, and the size is similar to what is shown in
your screenshot (Moz 1.4a, Chimera, Safari, IE5.x), OS X and OS 9.
Screenshots:
<http://www.l-c-n.com/lab/x_si/Moz16px.png> (default 16px setting)
<http://www.l-c-n.com/lab/x_si/Moz48px.png> (preferred font-size set to
48px)
(OS X)
Philippe
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