Whatever happened with that issue of font sizes not being able to be overwritten by browser preference? I thought I read a post where that was resolved, but now I can't find it. Was I supposed to change something in the style sheet?
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Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:56:38 pm PDT #578 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 8:57:43 pm PDT #579 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No -- not resolved. It's the pixels in the stylesheet.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:05:13 pm PDT #580 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well, changing pixels to points (i.e. px to pt) does not work. I just tried it and all the text got HUGE (I'm using Mozilla). If anyone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:02 pm PDT #581 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Pixels and points are different size things, so you have to change the numbers too -- I've always just used trial-and-error until the sizes kinda matched. (The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.)
amych - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:41 pm PDT #582 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Proportional sizing. IJS.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:28:16 pm PDT #583 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.
See, that troubles me. I'd rather just leave things as is. And proportional sizing would make that situation worse, no? The style sheet would be providing no "baseline" font size.
Michele T. - Oct 07, 2002 10:31:23 pm PDT #584 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm reasonably sure you can set a baseline with proportional, or that there's a preset one: I'm too tired to try to make sense of this link right now, but check this out [link]
I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 10:43:09 pm PDT #585 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Setting my monitor to 800 x 600 to test, and it looks like it would work.
Now to get rid of this ugly-ass setting. Eep.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:45:58 pm PDT #586 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I checked out that link Michele and all it's done is convince me that I should leave things alone.
I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.
Do you mean flush on the left and right sides? Is that possible?
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:47:38 pm PDT #587 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.