mini web page! ???

[Paul Furman]

I came aross this web site which appears the size of a postage stamp in
IE: http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/links/en/botanik_polygalales.html

I was able to read it in Mozilla but sheesh it's weird in IE.

 

[Tim Haynes]

Paul Furman fell into a slight daze and imagined the following:

I came aross this web site which appears the size of a postage stamp in
IE: http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/links/en/botanik_polygalales.html

I was able to read it in Mozilla but sheesh it's weird in IE.

Funny that because I have IE6 and it appears to be fine to me! Looks okay
in firefox too.

 

[Paul Furman]

The webmaster replied to me that I should change my font size settings
in IE to "medium" which fixed it. I've never had that happen before
though. It seems to be really advanced CSS stuff they are using but my
IE sure didn't like it.
Here's a screen capture with my text size set at the default "smallest":
http://www.edgehill.net/Clipboard01.gif

 

[Mark Parnell]

The webmaster replied to me that I should change my font size settings
in IE to "medium" which fixed it. I've never had that happen before
though. It seems to be really advanced CSS stuff they are using but my
IE sure didn't like it.

Hardly advanced. They are specifying font size in ems. IE has a bug
(surprise!) where fonts specified in ems are scaled dramatically when
you change the font size in your browser.

They should be using % (or not specifying a font size at all).

BTW: Please don't post upside down.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

 

[rf]

The webmaster replied to me that I should change my font size settings
in IE to "medium" which fixed it.

The webmaster is missing a couple of important facts.

There is a bug in IE. When font-size is specified in ems, particularly when
tables are used for layout, the standard
smallest-smaller-normal-large-largest settings are multiplied by a couple of
orders of magnitude. Smallest becomes fly droppings. Largest becomes
billboard size. Try it and see. This is the first bit of missing
information.

The second bit is that the workaround for this but is quite simple, specify
font-size: 100% for the body element.

Looking at the HTML and CSS I can see that the webmaster is missing a whole
lot more information. The CSS is bloated. There is no use made of
inheritance anywhere. Every single rule specifies everything about fonts,
even to specifying the defaults. The entire CSS file could be re-written in
about 5 lines.

Same for the HTML. It's a mess (apart from using tables). bgcolor attributes
all over the place instead of CSS. Browser sniffing that does not work.

This page was written by some sort of wisiwydon'tg.

I've never had that happen before
though. It seems to be really advanced CSS stuff they are using but my

See above. Do not use this size as a learning tool.

IE sure didn't like it.

Cheers
Richard.

 

[Malcolm]

BTW: Please don't post upside down.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

A: Because it messes up the way in which we normally read texts.
Q: Why is it a problem?
A: Top posts.
Q: what is the most annoying thing on the usenet?

Malcolm

 

[rf]

A: Top posts.
Q: what is the most annoying thing on the usenet?

And the second most annoying thing is under or over snipping of the post
being replied to. It took me twenty seconds to work out to whom you were
replying to and why :-(

Cheers
Richard.

 

[Paul Furman]

There is a bug in IE. When font-size is specified in ems, particularly when
tables are used for layout, the standard
smallest-smaller-normal-large-largest settings are multiplied by a couple of
orders of magnitude. Smallest becomes fly droppings. Largest becomes
billboard size...

...workaround for this but is quite simple, specify
font-size: 100% for the body element.

That's my conclusion that em's are good for sizing elements to match the
text (holds true even when browser settings are changed) but percent
works better and is more logical for actually specifying the font sizes.

...The CSS is bloated. There is no use made of
inheritance anywhere. E

Can someone give a 30 second example of inheritence syntax in CSS? I saw
that somewhere (once). It does seem preposterous not to do this.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Can someone give a 30 second example of inheritence syntax in CSS? I saw
that somewhere (once). It does seem preposterous not to do this.

body {font-size: 100%;
font-face: sans-serif; }

Everything in the body should inherit the font styles. No need to set it
for every element.