[thelist] relative font sizes

[Adam]

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on 3/8/02 3:19 AM, Nick Wilson at nick at explodingnet.com wrote:

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> * and then George Klingenhoffer declared....
>> Has anyone used relative font sizes to any effect?  I want to use it but
>> I'm having problems getting it to be consistent with all browsers.
>> Netscape scales down a few pixel sizes lower than IE and IE5 is apparently
>> smaller than IE6.
>>
>> For example: style="font-size:10px;" vs. style="font-size:xx-small;"
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> You *can't* make it consistent across browsers and IMO you should not
> try to. Design a flexible layout with flexible elements for a _flexible_
> medium. It is no longer acceptable to plonk a 600px table in the middle
> of the viwport, hard code it's text-sizing and call it a website. It's
> not 1996 any more.
>
> That said, I've no idea of how you do things and my little rant is not
> aimed at you. If you want to use relative font-sizing, and as a
> concientious designer you should, try using something similar to this:
>
> Assuming you use style-sheets to set these details...
>
> Don't set a base font size on the body tag.
> Set regular body text at 90%
> Set smaller sidebar/nav links etc at 75%
> Set copyright etc at 50%
>
> This test page uses it and I've found that it works pretty good across
> everything I've tried it on:
> www.explodingnet.com/CSS/TextSizing/telehuset/test.html
>
> Have fun!
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