In the 3.4 version of Snitz there's a bar at the bottom of the forum.asp page that allows you to sort the topics by means of a few listboxes. I use IE and 1024x768 and the size of the text surrounding the listboxes and the text in the listbox menus are fairly similar. My friend who occasionally uses Netscape at 800x600 claims that the fontsize in the listbox menus shows considearbly larger compared to IE (but the surrounding text is about the same) which results in the page not fitting on the screen. I looked at the code and for the listboxes the value 10px; is used. I'm not familiar with this way of specifying font sizes. If I change it to 8px; I notice no difference in IE but perhaps my friend with Netscape does. Does anyone know how this px; way of entering font sizes works?
That is specifying and exact pixel size for the fonts. Netscape never renders anything below 10pt px etc the same as IE. You can't do anything about that.
you can use points, picas, inches, millimeters and centimeters if I'm not mistaken. Only pixels will ensure you that the text will fit in the same area on all resolutions no matter what the text size in the browser is set to. That's why it's there.
OK thanks, but this doesn't seem to work, since on a Mac with 800x600 these listboxes show considerably larger characters than in IE (on the same Mac and with the same resolution).
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Posted - 20 September 2002 : 11:16:08
