Re: Help browser font size...
Re: Help browser font size...
- Subject: Re: Help browser font size...
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:10:15 -0800
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>That's what css is for. Change the 'font-size' in one
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>place for an entire set of documents rather than 20+
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>locations in each document.
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CSS may work very nicely for you and your needs, but is not always the best
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way to achieve one's goals. What about HTML rendered by a CGI? What if you
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have just one section where you want to alter the font size/color/face? I'm
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not going to use a symphony orchestra where a harmonica will do the job.
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>Maybe Apple should bring back CyberDog for viewing help
Actually it works like ... crap a lot of the time thanks to the divergent
impementations by the major browsers. Navigator 4 is absolutely horrible
as far as css...IE is better for that but their JSCRIPT bites. Mozilla's
implementation looks pretty strong but Nav4 will be around for some time
to come.
Incidentally I tend to use css even when I'm kicking out cgi results as
html pages. I find it much easier to focus on the task at hand rather
than fiddling around with layout if I'm using one of several core style
sheets.
Hardwired FONT FACE tags are really obnoxious much of the time because
they're usually sprinkled through a document like weeds making the source
even less readable. A couple of strategic styles defined in the document
head can make all that extra noise unnecessary and makes it much easier
for the person on the receiving end to modify the document's formatting
if the chosen font/size/color combos make the document difficult to read.
R23