[thelist] CSS: Unix and font sizes
one_webdude at excite.com
one_webdude at excite.com
Fri Apr 13 13:00:53 CDT 2001
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:35:49 -0400, thelist at lists.evolt.org wrote:
> I decided to go with px to determine my font sizes in CSS. Everything
looks
> good on both Mac and Win, NS and IE. On NS on Linux and Solaris (gotta
> target that hidden, deep-pocketed Solaris crowd, ya know!), the font is
> teensy-tiny.
Chris,
I maintain an intranet site and about 60% of my visitors are on
Solaris and the rest are on HP-UX with a smattering of Win95. I found
that the same page looked different between the two flavors of UNIX,
HP-UX looked about the same as the PCs, but Solaris indeed qualififed
as fine print. I went from pt to px and it helped, but. . . . I've
also used a different style sheet for Solaris. Here's what I used
to snoop out the OS:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function Is() {
var agent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
this.win = (agent.indexOf("win")!=-1);
this.sun = (agent.indexOf("sunos")!=-1);
this.hp = (agent.indexOf("hp-ux")!=-1);
}
var is = new Is();
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TOPMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0"
MARGINHEIGHT="0" MARGINWIDTH="0">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
if (is.win) { window.location ="index_default.html"; }
else if (is.hp) { window.location ="index_default.html"; }
else { window.location ="index_sunos.html"; }
</SCRIPT>
Worked pretty well.
HTH,
Terry Fowler
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