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Posted by C A Upsdell on 09/18/05 19:33
Andy Dingley wrote:
> I have a large commercial site to rebuild, where the design has been
> produced by the pixel-counting method. It's also one of those sites
> where cramming every space full of content is seen as better than a more
> spread-out and usable design that uses some scrolling. Not surprisingly
> it's the work of paper-based magazine designers, not web designers.
> The real problem here is that IE blows the whole lot apart. With its
> well-known problems of an excessive default scaling for ems to pixels, I
> can produce a good implementation for the well-behaved browsers (even on
> the Mac) but any IE rendering of the page only works when the user's
> text size is reduced to "Smaller". This is particularly bad if I attempt
> to use <h*> markup, where the differences are particularly visible.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Are there any "CSS hack" based techniques which will let me set a
> default size of 1em/100% for web browsers, then an 85% value for IE
> only, hidden by some parser hack ?
>
> (I am _not_ interested in a discussion of em vs. pixel sizing - that's a
> different issue)
body { font-size:85%; voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family:inherit;
font-size:medium; }
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