4/10 When I use font-size:medium, the font sizes are totally different in
IE and Firefox/Moz/Safari/etc. For real websites, is it recommended
to do something like font-size:11px ? Both allow for resizing.
\_ If you want something that looks exactly the way you want it to,
use PDF. If you want something that looks the way the reader
wants it to, use HTML. Your reader can make that choice; you
shouldn't. HTML specifies "what" not "how", despite the strong
efforts of far too many web designers who tell it "how", sigh ...
\_ PDF doesn't exactly work for interactive websites.
\_ Exactly the point. The "web designer" can not have absolute
control over the look of a site because html doesn't allow
for that. That is in the hands of the browser. There is no
way in hell a page in IE will look like the same in Mozilla
and in Opera and in lynks and Safari, etc.
and in Opera and in links and Safari, etc.
\_ medium/large/small/etc. are measured relative to the browser's
default font setting (which is configurable by the user, although
the default may vary from browser to browser). If you set it to
something like 11 px, then you're making your text by default to
be too small for people with high display resolutions or poor
eyesight. Every time they visit your page, they'll need to resize.
\_ Yes but if I use relative font settings and set my fonts to an
average size (which of course, looks too big to a 20something
graphic designer), it'll look tiny in FireFox, etc. If I set it
to 11pt, like most of the web, then people like my dad can still
view the site as long as their browser's font size is "Larger"
than default.
\_ Your grandmother's font size will be whatever the default is
for her browser. Stop being clever. |
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