- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:02:48 +0200
- To: "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
> > It has been pointed out to me by another list member that the > variation in interpretation of font size by all the browsers is > due to assumptions made on screen size .... > resolution size can be easily determined but not the size of > the actual display monitor so 12pt will never be exactly 1/6 inch. > That being said, it will become difficult to design attractive pages > if there is no agreement as to what 12pt should look like on > a given monitor with set resolution between various programs. > netscape 7 and msie 6 are very close visually, opera is only a > shade off, but amaya is really for the vision impaired > very big in comparison to others.... is there a specific reason > or was it a random choice.... as stated in first line there is no > CORRECT way but browser writers can try to coordinate for > the poor document creater's sake ... I made Windows fonts a little smaller. I hope it won't perturb other Windows users. > > John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA > http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in LLAMA) > check HTML at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ > check CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ > check JavaScript at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html > >
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