Re: 16px default, SI meter (Re: platform-specific font size issues)

Todd "I want my ex-unit!" Fahrner insinuated:

> " > The appropriate corrective measure, I submit, is for Mac (and X11?)
> " > browsers to break with tradition and ship with the default value of
> " > "medium" text set at 16px, instead of 12pt.
> "
> " Microsoft tried something like this in MSIE 4.0 Mac, where 'medium' was
> increased to 14. They changed it back to 12 in version 4.01.
>
>Are you sure about that? I hadn't noticed. That was a "trade-show special"
>release - loaded with bugs. Tantek - was there an experiment in 4.0? Or was
>this just a bug?

Just a bug.

Tantek "Read my lips: no more 'trade-show specials'!" Celik
CSS Scapegoat
Internet Explorer for Macintosh

Received on Wednesday, 16 December 1998 22:15:28 UTC