- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:55:55 +0200 (MET)
- To: Gayle Kidder <reddik@sandiego.com>, davidp@earthlink.net, www-style@w3.org
On Jul 17, 1:07pm, Gayle Kidder wrote: > If I specify a font size of 1em, then, it comes out considerably larger > than the default body type size of the user. I've experimented with > several different default fonts and sizes and find that in order to > approximate the user's default size you need to specify something > between .6 and .8 em, with .8em being the most reliable conversion among > those I tested. This, of course, varies with the font... and to a > certain extent with the browser. For those of you who are interested, > I've posted a demo with an assortment of common Windows fonts at: > http://www.beachmedia.com/www/emsizes.html Your findings appear to be dependent on platform, browser, and choice of default font. Explicitly setting a font on BODY would help. I took some snaps from NS and IE (where available) on Mac and SGI platforms; the results differ somewhat from your findings. 20394 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-macie301.gif 13625 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-macie301.png 18856 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-macns401.gif 12806 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-macns401.png 16437 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-sgins401p6.gif 11755 http://www.w3.org/people/chris/emsize-sgins401p6.png -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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