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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 02/07/06 02:53
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andy Dingley wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:24:23 +0000, "Alan J. Flavell"
> <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >I'd say that the CSS specification is quite clear on that, and MSIE -
> >curiously - is the only browser trying to conform to specs.
>
> Although I'd agree with your general point,
As you said in your other f'up:
||Too many bad designers abused fixed size (pixel) fonts when they
||shouldn't have done, so now the browser makers are ignoring the spec
||to make the overall web more usable.
Which might seem to be user-friendly, but it does nothing to punish
the original error. Might be better if authors were clearly aware
that browsers were going to do just exactly what they asked for, and
that users were going to override their *entire* sizing proposals if
they got it wrong - to see *everything* at the user's own preferred
font size instead.
> IE also seems to screw things up when the Windows desktop "font
> size" setting is increased to make text readable on a
> high-resolution display.
You'll presumably be aware of this page on the subject:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp
cheers
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