On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Alex Creedy wrote:
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>> […] The pager uses  '&bull;' bullets for the dots.
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>> http://www.alexcreedy.com/slider/slider_v2.html
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>> The bullets have a font size: 2em and line-height:1em
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>> The position of the bullets is slightly different in browsers, I have only
>> tested on Mac: firefox, safari, chrome so far.
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> Short answer: specify a font-family…
> Longer answer: as you don't specify a font-family anywhere, you depend on the 
> browser defaults (which maybe user set) - and on the intrinsic line-height of 
> said font. On OS X, this is usually Helvetica and Times. Now, WebKit on OS X 
> (still) has a build-in hack to force the line-height of those two fonts to 
> match Arial and Times New Roman – hence the difference you see between Gecko 
> (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari, Chrome).

That explains why we're seeing two different things, too.  My Linux
and Windows must be using different fonts than your Mac.


> If you specify both font-family and font-size, then position your bullets 
> vertically, they'll be positioned correctly in all browser on a given 
> platform. There might be small variations between platforms, but that is out 
> of your control (font-smoothing, etc).
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> Philippe
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