Sent by David Hucklesby on 5 July 2004 03:03
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 10:49:21 +0200, Vissers, M.R.E. (Michel) wrote
in reference to <http://hucklesby.f2o.org/demos/ie-kerning.html> -
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> After some toying around I stumbled upon the following. The code below
> works correctly on ff & ns, but IE messes things up. By multiplying
> letter-spacing by 2 in the shadow class, IE does fine, but on ff & ns
> it goes wrong.
>
> em is a relative sized value, but when using a fixed size, e.g. 10px
> IE does work correctly.
>
> It looks like IE goes wrong when doing a tag in another tag. I tried
> various combinations with span & div but they all acted strange.
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Thanks for playing some more with this, Michel. It makes sense that
a fixed size would work - no calculations are involved. Since you did
not define a font-size for H1 then the default of 200% applies. So your
success in multiplying letter-spacing by two confirms my suspicion.
The same applies when the H1 stands alone with no SPAN or FONT
tag in it. IE erroneously applies a letter-spacing relative to the base
or BODY font-size. Not to the H1 font size.
I guess your solution of using pixels is best, but I would prefer to
use relative sizes to allow users to change text size and to get the
same effect.
Your efforts are appreciated.
Life. Love. Peace.
David
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