Text sizes in CSS
Dropped through my mailbox today was an interesting e-mail pointing to an even more interesting article about text sizes in CSS. Most designers like myself will have set text size using pixels (px) in CSS, which will enable them to precisely know how large each line of text will be. However, there is a problem with this as Internet Explorer 5 on Windows cannot scale text that has had it size set in pixels.An obvious way around this would be to have your text size set in M’s (ems), but once again IE 5 and certain versions of Opera render ems extremely small when set at the standard 1.0.
It is debatable to whether many users will be using IE 5 today, but in the spirit of accessibility we have to assume that at least some are. So what do we do? Well luckily a great article written by Owen Briggs explains how to get around these problems.
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html
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