[thelist] Confused by 'ems'...

[JTocher]

Hey John,
Thanks for the tip. This brings up a question... per my client's request,
they want to 'link' a stylesheet to the main page for their content editors.
Will this linked stylesheet not take precedence over any stylesheet served
up based on javascript detection of the browser?
also, they wanted to NOT use the pt or px sizes so that the text will be
scaled according to the size selected by the user.
Janice

btw - thanks for passing on the read from richinstyle - looks to be a good
resource!

on 11/22/00 9:26 AM, you wrote:

>> something is just not getting through my head
>> on using the 'em' attributed for type size!
> 
> I have avoided using ems for the reason in
> http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/netscape4.html
> 
> This document suggests that you use px as the only reasonably universal type
> measure. On my site however, I still found I was having problems with my
> desired specification of line spacing of fonts with Netscape v4, so I used a
> different style sheet just for Netscape viewers:
> 
> NETSCAPE VERSION:
> body,P,li,div{ font: normal 8pt "Arial", Geneva, sans-serif;color: #666666}
> 
> THE REST VERSION:
> body,P,li,div{ font: normal 10px/12px arial, Geneva, sans-serif;color:
> #666666}
> 
> In Cold Fusion, I did the Netscape test by checking the HTTP_USER_AGENT
> string for the presence of both 'Mozilla/4.0' AND 'Nav' substrings.
> 
> I don't know if it's bulletproof before version 4 browsers, which may be a
> concern.
> 
> JP
> 
> 
> 
> 
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