Font sizes on Windows and Linux

[Andy Dingley]

Re: Font sizes on Windows and Linux

On 15 Mar, 13:44, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tu t.fiwrote:

But please read what the CSS 2.1 draft babbles about "reference pixel"

I'd rather not (read it once, didn't enjoy the experience).

However whatever a "reference pixel" is, it does suggest that it's not
a resizable unit under user control, in the way that ems are.

If a browser wants to implement a "zoom" feature, then that's a useful
addition (although arguably the desktop should be doing this already,
and instead of). It should zoom all things equally though, including
images, not just font sizes.

[David E. Ross]

Re: Font sizes on Windows and Linux

Kim André Akerø wrote:

Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>

>David E. Ross schrob:
>>

>>Don't force any font face! According to
>><http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-fa...inedResults.sh
>>tml>

>Interesting that there is no mentioning of any of the Bitstream Vera
>fonts.

>
Not on the combined results page, but if you dig a little deeper....

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml

>
The highest rank for any of the Bitstream Vera fonts in this survey
appears as 78.63% on this page, so it doesn't quite reach the bottom
cutoff on the combined results page. According to this survey, the most
commonly installed Linux-based font is Courier, which at "only" 84.64%
comes in 38th place (out of 40) in the combined results, and is the
only one from Linux/BSD/UNIX/etc. in that particular results page.
>

That's why, when I wrote my partially-quoted reply, I looked at the
individual surveys for Windows, Mac, and UNIX rather than relying on the
combined survey.

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