Table Caption, Another HTML Bug?

[David Hampson]

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> On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 11:30  PM, Paul Kafasis wrote:
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>>  Slightly off-topic, but I noticed this. Why is OW the only browser that
>> listens to font sizes?? iCab and IE both automatically bump the font up
>> +2. OW looks gorgoeus, but then I'll test the page in IE, and need to
>> drop font sizes. Any web designers out there care to shed some light on
>> this? I know I can then change the size in IE, but default seems to be 
>> +2.
>>
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>> --
>> Paul Kafasis
>> paulk at mac.com
>>
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	Actually, in my opinion, OW is the only one that does NOT listen to 
font sizes.  Both IE and Mozilla have a place for entering the resolution 
of my monitor.  So, when a 12 point font is declared, The fonts are 12 
points tall (12/72, or 1/6 an inch.  aka 1 pica)  Omniweb has no way of 
knowing that my monitor has a resolution of 114 dpi.  12 point fonts in 
these browsers are (12/72)*114 = 19 pixels tall.  I can measure them with 
a ruler.

	If Omni assumed my monitor had 72 dpi (which Macs used to always 
assume back in the days of the 72dpi dot-matrix printers) then a 12 point 
font would correspond to 12 pixels height.  I believe Omni assumes 96 dpi,
  (which is what Windows assumed, and is much closer to the average monitor 
resolution)  This means a 12 point font is (12/72)*96 = 16  pixels tall, 
which seems more more like what I am getting.

	Omni does such a poor job with style sheets though, its hard for me to 
properly test it.

	btw, it appears that Opera makes a similar assumption, which is odd 
since they pride themselves on being so standards compliant.

-Dave

"One of the main advantages of Unix over, say, MVS, is the tremendous 
number of features Unix lacks."
  -- Chris Torek

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