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Font sizes on Windows and Linux Frank Steinmetzger 03-14-2007
Posted by Frank Steinmetzger on March 14, 2007, 1:36 pm
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Hello Group

On my website I used to have Tahoma 8pt defined in my CSS styles. That gives
me the "normal" font Windows uses everywhere in its dialogues.
However, on Linux things seem to be different. If I want a font equal in
size to Windows' Tahoma 8pt, I need to set 11 as font size. This has the
result that text on my website is too small for Linux systems at the
moment.

Could you tell me what I need to do in order to get the same font size on
both systems?

TIA
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Posted by Osmo Saarikumpu on March 14, 2007, 2:07 pm
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Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

> Could you tell me what I need to do in order to get the same font size on
> both systems?

Sure. Do not set any font size at all. And the world would be a better
place...

Osmo


Posted by Frank Steinmetzger on March 14, 2007, 2:13 pm
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Osmo Saarikumpu schrob:

>> Could you tell me what I need to do in order to get the same font size on
>> both systems?
>
> Sure. Do not set any font size at all. And the world would be a better
> place...

Hm... quite an idea.
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Posted by Jim Moe on March 14, 2007, 2:18 pm
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Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
> Could you tell me what I need to do in order to get the same font size on
> both systems?
>
Use ems or % to set the font sizes, not px or pt.
Using pt puts you at the mercy of the browser's interpretation of what a
point is. Without some sort of external physical length reference all a
browser can do is guess at the size. Obviously Windows and Linux guess
differently.
Using px or pt also had the disadvantage that an IE user cannot adjust
the font size to their preference.

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Posted by Andy Dingley on March 15, 2007, 6:04 am
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I'd agree with your first two paras, but not this:

> Using px or pt also had the disadvantage that an IE user cannot adjust
> the font size to their preference.

Px and pt units have a defined meaning, which it's wrong for FF to
make flexible like this. Understandable, as it was a reaction to
clueless web coders setting fonts this way rather than in ems, but
still wrong.


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