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Posted by Neredbojias on 06/20/06 21:00
To further the education of mankind, "Peter Olcott" <olcott@att.net>
vouchsafed:
>>> I must know the point size. Imagine that I am writing a browser, and
>>> must display any webpage.
>>
>> Display where? If in users' browsers, just keyphrase-identify all
>> the various valid (and some invalid) possible font-designators and
>> copy their attributes verbatim. However, if your process depends
>> upon determining each user's browser default font-size, etc., to
>> accomplish its task, that really isn't possible.
>>
>
> Then browsers couldn't do it, and since they do it, therefore its not
> impossible.
Actually, they don't; they _set_ the font-size for their application,
determining, perhaps, the OS default font size as necessary. If doing this
in points is really accurate (which I doubt), said browser must also find
out the current monitor size and resolution.
--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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