Sent by Nick Wilson on 23 February 2002 15:03
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* and then Ben Nunn declared....
> You are asking for something which is logically impossible.
>
> On one hand you want your text to be an arbitrary, non-absolute size -
> meaning it can be any size or adjusted to any size depending on the user
> agent.
No, I just want it to be a similar size under the normal setttings of
the popular browsers.
> I'm afraid you can't have it both ways. Either you specify the size or not,
> and if you don't set the size you can have no complaint about a particular
> browser setup rendering it in it's own specific way.
Yeah, but thats just splitting hairs, you know what I *mean*.
> Having now looked at your page, my individual opinion is that I find it
> _unreadable_ under my default IE settings, and yet reasonably sized under
> Netscape 6. And such is the hit-and-miss nature of using ems or %s.
Most users don't mess with the default settings and IE's is 'medium'
right? What do you have yours set to?
> BTW if you didn't know, Netscape's text-size % settings DO override px
> measurements.
Yeah, I did, but like I said, most users never mess with the settings.
Saying that, those types of users are very unlikely to be using NS
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