- From: Peter Belesis <pbel@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:35:38 +0300
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote:
> Hmm, well, you're correct in what we (MSIE) require. As to your other
> issue, I would not expect any of the permutations you mention to work,
> except "font: 36pt bold;" (which won't be bold, necessarily - that's "a
> font from the family named "bold", 36pt size"). The CSS 'font' property
> REQUIRES a font-size, and requires it after any weight, style or variant
> in the 'font' property.
>
> You can say, for both browsers,
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> .bigGuy {
> float: left;
> font-size: 500%;
> width: 1em;
> }
> </STYLE>
>
> Be forewarned, however, I've seen some serious weirdness in Navigator 4
did you try this, Chris? I did, before my orig. letter. That's why I
changed the size to points. MSIE seems to do it correctly. NS4.01a Win95
delivers something between 2000% and 3000%. That's why I avoided *%*. It
comes back to the same thing. With beta software (let's not kid
ourselves, in a perfect world NS 4.01a would be called NS 4b8) we go for
what works exactly the same in both, which is still my example. Don't
you agree? Try it.
--
Peter Belesis Dynamic HTML Lab
peter@webreference.com http://www.webreference.com/dhtml
Received on Thursday, 14 August 1997 16:43:30 UTC