- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:08:36 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
Tantek Celik wrote: >> " > 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. In retrospect, maybe the bug is only that the default font was changed back to 12 point? At the time, I trusted that the increase to 14(px?) was part of an incomplete but informed intent to reconcile Macintosh with Windows display. Susan Lesch
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