From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-07-24T02:19:24+09:00
Subject: Re: New RDoc template, and a question

Aredridel wrote:

>Make sure the font sizes are not specified absolutely, for sure -- no
>px, pt, in, cm, mm or pc units, please!
>
>  
>
I'll throw this in the mix:

 From [1]:

    A good resource for understanding the scope of this problem is Owen
    Brigg's excellent Text Sizing article
    <http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/>[2],
    which includes 274 screenshots of different font sizing techniques
    in different environments. To cut a long story short, the only
    reliable cross browser sizing method is to specify the size of the
    font in pixels. This comes with one massive drawback: doing so will
    prevent IE users from resizing the text in their browsers. If you
    care at all about accessibility you'll know why this is a bad idea.


[1] http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/05/20/defeatingIE5
[2] http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/

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Chris
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