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Author Re: Stylized text with absolute values vs. relative values and scalability on a Mac
Eric Kenneth Bustad

2005-09-20, 7:40 pm

In article <1127225231.375919.234100@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<robbiehenry@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
>I built my company's website and the content portion of the site uses
>text with styles with relative values and the navigational part of the
>site uses text with styles with absolute values. The purpose of this
>was so that the end user could increase the size of the text on the
>webpage and only the content portion of the page would scale or resize
>but the navigation would not. This works as expected on a pc but the
>entire page scales on a MAC. Does MAC not support text with styles the
>same as pc so that the only scalable text is that with relative values
>(ie: small, x-small, medium, large, etc)? Absolute values conist of
>point sized text.
>
>
>Here is a page sample:
>http://www.otpp.com/web/website.nsf/web/companyprofile
>
>
>All help and insite is appreciated.


This is a function of what browser is being used, not the type of
computer. Firefox on a PC would work just like whatever browser you
are using on a MAC. Your specified text sizes are only suggestions
to the browser, not commandments.

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= Eric Bustad, Norwegian bachelor programmer
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