[thelist] Font size problems with CSS & NN 4.73(win)
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 13 06:48:41 CDT 2001
> From: noah <noah at tookish.net>
>
> The advantage of using em, though, as I understand it, is that control
> over the font size remains in the hands of the user. For example, if
> you set a font at 15px, it will show up at 15px for everyone,
> regardless of the font size settings in their browser. If you use em
> you won't get the same consistency, but people will be able to change
> the text size via the browser, which seems to be a pretty significant
> accessibility issue.
this is absolutely true, however, the original question was about
consistency of display...
that's one of the trade-offs, though... once ems are correctly
interpreted by browsers, they will be a much better choice, if not
the best choice...
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