On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
font-size-adjust is support by Gecko (Firefox) on Windows.
Firefox 3.0/Gecko 1.9 will have support for it on all platforms.
Unfortunately, no other browser support it at the time of writing.
That's interesting news. But presumably there won't be any support in IE
in the foreseeable future.
And I don't quite get the idea. The property is supposed to help in
situations like
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
so that I can handle the problem that Verdana looks larger than Arial of
the same size, so if I set the size suitable for Verdana, it will be
too large for Arial. But it is supposed to help so that the browser
analyzes the properties (basically, x height) of the fonts listed, the
adjusts the font size accordingly. How can this help? If my system has
Verdana, it will be used, and the problem does not arise. If my system has
no font under that name, how is the browser expected to know the
properties of the font?
So it seems that this could only help when the primarily suggested font
(and thus its font information) _is_ available but its use has been
prevented. This is a possible scenario, but hardly a common one.
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