RE: Text sizing

Bauser, Joseph (Joe)
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:57:04 -0000

I also use pt on all of my sites, and it will _appear_ to be working fine.
However, try and view the same site, with the same font, in the same browser, in
more than one operating system and you''ll see a large (and annoying)
difference.

If Linux or BSD users aren''t your target user base then you may be
fine, however I''ve found that text over in Linux land tends to render
much differently than in Windows.

With that in mind, I should really do a comparison of the different sizes so I
can figure out what''s up.

Despite this, I usually just "code around" the problem by providing
text in a way that I can use pt and not destroy the flow/layout of my page with
the differences in size. However if this isn''t an option for you, you
may want to try the formatting with em''s stylesheet provided in the
article you listed below.

I believe that the em stylesheet provided proper results across browser and
operating system. (YMMV)

Final conclusion, vector fonts suck.. lets go back to monospaced fonts. :P

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Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Text sizing


I didn''t see any reference to using pt for fonts.  I use pt for most
of my fonts and sizes seem the same across browsers.  Is there some
big bad reason for not using pt for fonts that I''m unaware of?

On 7/5/06, Sam <sam.google-Uc2IQQBAS6sAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
>
> I''ve had to worry about how different browsers render different
screen sizes
> for text for years.  I don''t want to use "px" for
font-size as IE will
> cripple the browsers "VIEW, Text Size" control.  We need to keep
the
> text-size browser control fully operational for accessibility and
usability.
>  At the same time, we want text-laden pages to render
"approximately" the
> same across all browsers on page load, normal text-viewing-size.
>
> My reference on the subject has been the work of Owen Briggs:
>
> http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html
>
> This work gets close, but for my purposes, it could be improved.  Firefox
> will always renders text noticeably larger  than IE and these are the two
> most significant browsers in our user base.  The page layouts differ more
> than I would like.
>
> Using JavaScript, it might be possible to get a better match in IE and
> Firefox text-size by detecting the browser type and setStyle on the body
> {font-size: value} to a browser-specific setting such that the
"normal"
> rendering size was the same across all browsers.
>
> Before I go off and invent the wheel again; has anyone seen anything like
> this done elsewhere?
>
> Sam
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