On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:28:50 -0500, David Laakso wrote: > Al Kendall wrote: >> 1. In Firefox v3, it looks great. >> 2. In IE v7 all the graphics and text are much larger and take up much more >> space on >> the screen. >> 3. In Opera v9, it close to firefox, but you not in the drop-down menu >> there are >> gaps under each link and then one link is too long so it drops down to a >> second line >> with a great space. >> >> 1. http://www.alsfitt.com/images/firefox-v3.jpg >> 2. http://www.alsfitt.com/images/ie-v7.jpg >> 3. http://www.alsfitt.com/images/opera-v9.jpg >> >> Cheers >> Al >> >> > The above is in reference to: <http://www.alsfitt.com/index.php> > > There are individual differences among platforms and browsers, among them, > whether they > round font-sizes up, or round them down. About the best one can do is to try > and > achieve at least some semblance of consistency. Some author's claim setting > default > (100%) on percent on the body declaration, and then using percent for all > selectors > throughout the style sheet (with line-height set as a raw unit-less number) > yields * > relatively* consistent results cross-browser. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After much mucking about with font-size settings, I found the most consistent results using 100% base for IE, and 16px for modern browsers. (Actually, for Netscape 4 as well, if you care!) This corresponds to what Richard Rutter recommended a year ago.[1] If you calculate ems or percents from this base, rounding any fraction *up* to the next higher 1% (0.01em) for Safari, you should get real consistency among browsers. Not perfect, but as close as owt. [1] <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss> Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
