Font size inconsistencies

#1

I am controlling text size using pixels and CSS, everything works fine on my
computer and 5 others until the president of my company looks at it... it
always seems to work that way. Anyway, looking at it in IE6 and Firefox.
everything looks beautiful.

There is naviagtion text, breadcrumbs, body text, and footer text and the
only thing that changes on his computer is the body text changes from 11px
Verdanda to 13 or 14 px.

Any ideas?

#2

Browser users can decide to increase the font size, no matter what size
you specified in the code.
Your Boss might have set his browser to increase the font size.

Brian Lantz wrote:

Quote:

I am controlling text size using pixels and CSS, everything works fine on my
computer and 5 others until the president of my company looks at it... it
always seems to work that way. Anyway, looking at it in IE6 and Firefox.
everything looks beautiful.

There is naviagtion text, breadcrumbs, body text, and footer text and the
only thing that changes on his computer is the body text changes from 11px
Verdanda to 13 or 14 px.

Any ideas?

#3

.oO(Brian Lantz)

Quote:

I am controlling text size using pixels and CSS,

Bad idea (at least for IE users). You should use % or em to allow
IE-users to easily resize fonts (in other browsers you can resize it
always).

Quote:

everything works fine on my
computer and 5 others until the president of my company looks at it... it
always seems to work that way. Anyway, looking at it in IE6 and Firefox.
everything looks beautiful.

There is naviagtion text, breadcrumbs, body text, and footer text and the
only thing that changes on his computer is the body text changes from 11px
Verdanda to 13 or 14 px.

Maybe the user wants a minimum font-size of 13px for better legibility?
Quite easy to do in recent browsers (I also do it in my Mozilla), but a
problem, if the author relies on fixed sizes/positions of page elements.

Quote:

Any ideas?

Yep, post an URL.

Micha

#4

His browser fon't size might be set to be viewed "larger". IE doesn't allow
pixel defined fonts to be adjustable like this but some Gecko-based browsers do.

Does the 13/14px sized fonts make your web site look bad? Well designed web
sites are *supposed* to maintain their visual quality even with the font sizes
adjusted.

#5

His setting under View/Text Size is set to Medium. The site still works...
nothing gets blown-up when this happens. He just knows what the prototype
looks like and wants to see it that way.

I'll check into it further...

Thanks
lantz

"Brian Lantz" <brian.lantz (AT) NOSPAMasaHQ (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

I am controlling text size using pixels and CSS, everything works fine on
my
computer and 5 others until the president of my company looks at it... it
always seems to work that way. Anyway, looking at it in IE6 and Firefox.
everything looks beautiful.

There is naviagtion text, breadcrumbs, body text, and footer text and the
only thing that changes on his computer is the body text changes from 11px
Verdanda to 13 or 14 px.

Any ideas?

#6

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:15:05 -0400, "Brian Lantz"
<brian.lantz (AT) NOSPAMasaHQ (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

His setting under View/Text Size is set to Medium. The site still works...
nothing gets blown-up when this happens. He just knows what the prototype
looks like and wants to see it that way.

I'll check into it further...

One of the further things to check is to click Tools->Internet Options
and, on the General tab, click the Accessibility button. Look to see if
"Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages" is checked.

Gary

#7

It's important that a client (or boss) understand that designing for the web
isn't like designing for print. You can do what you're able to control how
it looks, but it just won't look the same on every browser unless it's all
graphics, and of course that defeats the purpose. I just went through this
with a client who wanted to tweak spacing all over the place. I did some,
but then had to explain that depending on the OS, the browser, the viewport
size, etc, it's not going to look that "perfect" to everyone, so there's a
point where it's just masturbatory. And god, I like typing that word.

MD

Brian Lantz wrote:

Quote:

His setting under View/Text Size is set to Medium. The site still
works... nothing gets blown-up when this happens. He just knows what
the prototype looks like and wants to see it that way.

I'll check into it further...

Thanks
lantz

"Brian Lantz" <brian.lantz (AT) NOSPAMasaHQ (DOT) com> wrote in message
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I am controlling text size using pixels and CSS, everything works
fine on my computer and 5 others until the president of my company
looks at it... it always seems to work that way. Anyway, looking at
it in IE6 and Firefox. everything looks beautiful.

There is naviagtion text, breadcrumbs, body text, and footer text
and the only thing that changes on his computer is the body text
changes from 11px Verdanda to 13 or 14 px.

Any ideas?

#8

You do? 8)

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I like typing that word.

MD