- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
The CSS definition of font-size is different from the one used by many operating systems and/or font formats. I'm not sure exactly where the problem lies. However, a number of other things in CSS depend on font sizes (em units, backgrounds of inline elements, line-height), and different browsers compensate for the two different definitions of font size in different ways, causing rather serious incompatibilities. In the current situation, implementation of font-size-adjust would be meaningless because different browsers would probably define x-height in different ways. I've written a test showing these problems and an explanation of how various browsers handle the problems, at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/fonts/sizes/ I think this inconsistency needs to be addressed in some way so that presentational suggestions that are reasonable on one browser are not ridiculous on another. I don't really have any thoughts on how to solve this without the serious backwards-compatibility problems that would be caused by going to the spec's definition, but I hope others here do. David L. David Baron Freshman, Harvard dbaron@fas.harvard.edu Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > WSP CSS AC < http://www.webstandards.org/css/ >
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