Re: Text sizing

Andrew Tetlaw
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:08:22 -0000

Taking advice from the noodle incident:

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html

For the last few years I''ve always set Body to 76% and the all other
font size rules use ems.

Since then I''ve not had to worry about font sizes ever again.

On 06/07/06, 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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