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Font sizing in Opera vs Firefox/IE

Sent by Bob Easton on 21 February 2005 00:12


Bruce MacKay wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a site in which the font is too small in Opera but OK in IE and 
> Firefox.  An example page is here...
> 
> http://horticulture227.massey.ac.nz/testpage.htm
> 
> with the associated style sheet
> http://horticulture227.massey.ac.nz/scripts/main90.css
> 
> The particular problem is in the left-hand-side bar - the titles 
> (Horticulture today, upcoming events, contact us) are supposed to be the 
> same size as the top navigation links and the content of the LHS bar is 
> supposed to be the same size as the top sub navigation.
> 
> ...

We have nine pages about font sizing in the CSS WIKI [1].  I'm not sure 
your answer is there, but it is more "homework."  If the page were 
easier to recreate (minimal test case[2]), I would be tempted to try to 
diagnose it further.  I'm thinking that starting with a body size of 
"smaller" and then asking for 85% of that is part of the problem.

While looking at the code, I saw something else.  The technique of 
display:none for skip links does not work as you might expect.  It hides 
them from the people who need them most, screen reader users.  See [3].

[1] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
[2] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MysteryBug
[3] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility

-- 
Bob Easton

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