[thelist] CSS: Fuzzy Relatives.

Frank framar at interlog.com
Fri Aug 31 18:47:18 CDT 2001


Thanks for the site feedback that every one offered, I took it to 
heart. In doing so I promptly remembered why I had used fixed size 
fonts.

Ems are fuzzy. An em should be the perfectly scalable unit for a 
font-size, yet I find that it has an even greater variance across 
browsers and platforms than points.

As most browsers attempt to figure out how many px high and wide a 
character should be, they go into an anti-aliasing frenzy that 
renders the type in an almost illegible manner.

What have you found to be the most successful manner of scaling 
font-sizes using CSS?
-- 


A bucket full of water does not splash about,
             only a bucket half-full splashes.
                                           -- Malayan Proverb.

Frank Marion                      Framar Studios
frank at framarstudios.com           http://www.framarstudios.com




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