Mozilla ?

[WJ]

I have an Asp.aspx page with Text Controls being hosted on a Web control
"Panel". All the textControls are haing Font 'Times New Roman' and Size=
'X-Small'. The Panel control has the following attributes:

BORDER-RIGHT: black 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: black 1px solid;
FONT-SIZE: 9px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: capitalize; BORDER-LEFT: black 1px solid;
WIDTH: 632px; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px solid;
FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; POSITION: relative;
HEIGHT: 40px; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps


Problem: When running under Linux (RedHat Fedora 2) /Mozilla 1.x, the
browsers converted all the TextControl to Height: 23, and the fonts to
something else. This causes fields to overwrite one another. Is there a way
that I can adjust this without changing the internal fonts and properties.

Another problem is that I use Web color, say, BackGround color: #004000
(ForestGreen) picked from the Web color page, the color would be converted
to none/white.

yes, when running under MS/IE 6.x, the page is extremely nice !

Thanks for your help,



John

 

[Alan Silver]

John,

As a general piece of advice, you should remember that browsers are not
forced to display text the way you specify. The settings you give are
(according to W3C specs) only recommendations. Also, even if they are
followed, there is enough leniency for different browsers to display
them in different ways. Fixing font sizes is not the right thing to do
for the web, firstly for this reason, and secondly because it is against
the users' interests. Users should be free to set font sizes how they
feel comfortable. If you make it hard for them to read, they'll just go
elsewhere.

9pt times new roman is very small on a very large percentage of
machines. Obviously it all depends on screen resolution, screen size and
so on, but as a general rule, that is a pretty hard size to read in that
(or most) font.

Do your users a favour and allow the text to be resized, otherwise you
might find you don't have any users left!!

HTH