[plug] netscape fonts too small on linux

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Thu Jul 1 11:36:23 WST 1999


Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> Has anyone managed to get correct font sizes from Netscape, for
> pages that dont use the default size?
>   I'm using 4.51 now, but have had the same problem in other versions -
> when the font is set in a web page, it comes out too small under Linux.
> 
> e.g. RedHat pages set
>  <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetia,Sans-Serif" SIZE="2">

Yeah, it's called slap the silly site designer around for specifying FONT sizes
instead of using relative sizes (ie; +1, -1, etc ...). ^_^

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