Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 03/01/07 14:14

Jeff Louella wrote:

> Well, I am not the designer of the site and on most of the site, it is
> not effecting the layout. But you are missing the point. I am doing
> the testing and I am the user right now. The same font at the same
> size is almost 5 pixels different in the same browser on 2 different
> operating systems. A header that is at 16px, looks 14px in MS Vista
> and 18px in XP. Normal body copy font's at 10px are readable on all
> browser except vista because it makes the font look 8px. 8px Japanese
> fonts are almost illegible. That's not a problem for you, but it is
> for me, the designer and the customer that is paying well into the six
> figures for the site.

The point is one should not specify any font-size in a website in pixels
and therefore making it easy for the user to set his browser up to
display fonts that are legible for him...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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