Sent by Felix Miata on 3 November 2004 17:05
Dave Cooksey wrote:
> Hi, All. I have a problem with a site developed with XHTML/CSS. The
> site looked fine in all my tests in IE6/WIN, Net7/WIN, IE/MAC & Safari.
> But recently I looked at the site on another laptop using IE6 & was
> surprised to see the text on the page displaying larger than I expected,
> which threw the site design off, in particular the navbar.
> Here are screenshots of what I see:
> 1. Dell laptop (the problem screen) -
> http://www.saturdave.com/liberty/LBA_Dell.jpg
> 2. Sony laptop (all is well) - http://www.saturdave.com/liberty/LBA_Sony.jpg
> Both machines are set at 1024x768 using IE6.0.28x.
> Any ideas of why the one displays the text larger?
You size your text in pt, which is bad, bad, bad for screen media. The
Dell is running 120 DPI (large fonts - medium = 12pt = 20px), while the
Sony is running standard 96 DPI (small fonts - medium = 12pt = 16px).
> Here is the web address:
> http://www.goldbeck.net/LibertyBellAgency/index.html
http://www.goldbeck.net/LibertyBellAgency/libertystyle.css
No one should be using pt for sizing screen media text. No recognized
expert on web design that I'm aware of recommends pt for text sizing
anything other than print media.
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingFontSize
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#tech-relative-units
http://www.w3.org/2003/07/30-font-size
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/gls/g104.html
http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/points/font_wars.GIF
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69205#c16
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=164255&action=view
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