- From: Jim Byrne <j.byrne@gcal.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:12:49 +0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Andrew, Mike, Geoffrey, Thanks for the feedback. The discussion about problems with em units (and the % workaround) are discussed in the chapter 'Problems with the use of CSS relative units' at http://www.scotconnect.com/webtypography/problems.php And you are right - the site that the book is published on did not conform to the advice contained within the book. An oversight on my part which I will get fixed. All the best, Jim on 2/4/04 1:33 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick at andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org wrote: > > Just as a quick answer to solving *this* problem with IE, (there's > apparently a lot more problems :) if you set the size of the font as % > within body, and use ems elsewhere, then IE only shrinks text down to a > certain level under (view -> text size -> smallest). So, allowing that you > don't make the body size % too small, you can use ems and not have this > problem with IE. > > As an example, and purely just for this!, our site: > http://www.signify.co.nz > uses "font-size: 76%;" within the body and ems for all other sizings. > Reducing text size in IE to "smallest" still allows me to read the text - > albeit that it is small. Whereas in Jim's example that you referred to, I > couldn't read anything. > > Owen Briggs has a huge set of images of text sized different ways on his > site: > http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html > > This demonstration is entirely visual - no alt on the images. He comes to > the same conclusion as Mike about ems and %'s. > > Andrew > > Andrew Kirkpatrick > Project Manager, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media > 125 Western Avenue > Boston, MA 02134 > 617.300.4420 > -- Your website can be beautiful and accessible. Visit http://www.mcu.org.uk - and find out how. New, recommended eBook: 'Accessible Web Typography - an introduction for web designers' at http://www.scotconnect.com/webtype.php
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