[thelist] CSS, Fonts and User Preferences

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Janis Joseph had the thought that... <<<

> From: "Nicole Parrot" <nicole at parrot.ca>
> 
> > Thanks to everyone who answered.
> > I'm now playing with the percentage trick, which I didn't know we could
> do.
> > With advance planning, I think I can pull it ;-)
> 
> Er, well...
> 
> Approach with caution and test like crazy, especially on Macs, and
> especially if you want the page to be printable. I was sent screenshots from
> a Mac of a page I'd done with %-sized fonts -- and they weren't even nested,
> or cascading -- and it wasn't pretty.

Yeah, any version of Mac IE < 5 is pretty worthless when it comes to
CSS.  The Netscape 4.x versions have all the usual bugs, plus some
extras hidden away here and there.

<tip type="mac testing">
   If you have a mac test lab machine, you should partition it's
   drives and install at least two versions of the OS, one for running
   IE 4.5 and one for running 5.0 since they can't get along due to
   the versions of Shared Libs they copy into the System Folder.
</tip>

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