[thelist] Mac X PC
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed May 16 13:01:22 CDT 2001
Morbus Iff wrote:
>
> >The biggest difference I can think of is font sizes in using CSS. 12 point
> >seems to be a lot smaller on the Mac than on the PC.
>
> Quite true - which is why you'd want to use pixels and not points, even
> though w3c recommends against. 12px on a Mac is the same as on Windows, and
> so forth.
uh, true - but also 12px on a Sun, or other hi-res platform ...
A 12px Helvetica font on my Windows display: 17" monitor @ 1024 x 768
is comfortably readable; the same on my Sun: 17" monitor @ 1152 x 900
is barely readable, and newer Suns have resolutions up to 1600 x 1200.
My current practice is to use relative sizes ("large", "medium", etc.)
to allow scaling per the user's personal font preferences setting.
YMMV!
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