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RE: FORMS TINY!!!
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Originally posted by steven5678
What is that feature for anyways?
This isn't a "feature" per se. This is simply how HTML works; It is the whole essence of HTML.

Despite what many people think, HTML is _not_ a language where you can depend on the size of the elements used, including text sizes. Sizes are relative to the recievers screen, not absolute like many think they are...

HTML is not a fixed size markup language, but a dynamic size markup language. The person who creates a HTML page has no control in how the page will look at the receiver's end. Because of this you can not know if text will look "small" or "big" on the recievers end. Sizes are relative in HTML.

eg: <font size="4"> simply means a slithly bigger font then <font size="3">. It doesn't mean a font size with a fixed size of 4 because not everybody's screen will display size 4 the same...

And that is why every browser has such a "feature" to size up/down the text being displayed. And that is why you shouldn't use fixed fontsizes, absolute positions, etc. on webpages either (this is a VERY common mistake to make).

This post was edited on 03-30-2005 at 09:36 PM by CookieRevised.
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FORMS TINY!!! - by Val on 03-29-2005 at 03:40 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by MC.POP on 03-29-2005 at 03:41 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by ddunk on 03-29-2005 at 03:42 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Val on 03-29-2005 at 03:45 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by L. Coyote on 03-29-2005 at 03:48 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Val on 03-29-2005 at 03:50 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by .Roy on 03-29-2005 at 06:09 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Pipish on 03-29-2005 at 07:36 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by King For A Day on 03-29-2005 at 10:36 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Zephyr on 03-29-2005 at 10:54 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Eljay on 03-29-2005 at 10:58 AM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by fluffy_lobster on 03-29-2005 at 12:45 PM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Val on 03-30-2005 at 09:13 PM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Steven on 03-30-2005 at 09:14 PM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by Millenium_edition on 03-30-2005 at 09:31 PM
RE: FORMS TINY!!! - by CookieRevised on 03-30-2005 at 09:34 PM


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