Posted by Stan McCann on 04/03/06 22:03

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0604031539200.1455@ppepc55.ph.gla.ac.uk:

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2006, Stan McCann wrote:
>
>> Norman Swartz <swartz@sfu.ca> wrote in
>> news:Xns97987A98B280Dswartzsfuca@64.59.144.76:
>> > In IE, when one clicks on the font-size selector icon and chooses
>> > a display size (e.g. "smallest" or "largest"), the on-screen text
>> > remains exactly at 16 points.
>
> Aren't you the lucky one? Hardly any Windows systems are calibrated
> to display "exactly" 16 points.
>
>> Due to a bug in IE.
>
> It's hardly a "bug" that a browser conforms to the CSS specification.

I stand corrected.

> If there's anything here that qualifies as a "bug", it's in the minds
> of those crazy authors who specify absolute size units for a general
> web display situation.

Agreed, especially when that absolute size is ridiculously small.

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