[Javascript] forcing browser text size and/or text zoom settings

Brian Andrews bandrews at marlboro.edu
Wed Apr 18 07:49:54 CDT 2001


> Exactly the other way around. Giving a site a font size in points will make
> the text OK in one browser (IE on Win) and unreadable in another (NN on
> Mac).

This is because the Mac OS specifies type at 72dpi whereas Windows is at 96
dpi. Netscape on Windows is 72dpi except I believe for version 6.

For this reason I always use px.





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