Specifying font sizes

Trying to determine if any of these methods prevent a browser from resizing the text.

Points

Paragraph 1. Font size specified with FONT size=1 .

Paragraph 2. Font size specified with inline style attribute to 9 pt.

Paragraph 3. Font size specified with style in HEAD to 9 pt.

Paragraph 4. Font size specified with FONT size=+1.

Paragraph 5. Font size specified with inline style attribute to 120%.

Paragraph 6. Font size specified with style in HEAD to 120%.

The only instances when text was not resizable are:

in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (MSIE 5.0) when font size is specified with
- the style attribute to 9 point
- the STYLE element to 9 point
in Netscape Communicator 4.7 (NC 4.7) when font size is specified with the style attribute to 9 point.

When the author font size is ignored by the browser (either by disabling style sheets or ignoring FONT information) all examples resize.

Text is always resizable in Opera no matter how it is specified.

The following table summarizes these results.

	font size=1	style= "size=9pt"	STYLE font-size=9pt	font size=+1	style= "size=120%"	STYLE font-size=120%
MSIE 5.0	resizable	resize only when ss disabled	resize only when ss disabled	resizable	resizable	resizable
NC 4.7	resizable	resize only when ss disabled	resizable	resizable	resizable	resizable
Opera 3.6	resizable	resizable	resizable	resizable	resizable	resizable

$Date: 2000/11/08 08:30:17 $ Wendy Chisholm