Table Caption, Another HTML Bug?

[Paul Kafasis]

Patrick,
 This is not what I'm seeing. When I load the Style Sheet with a set font
size of say, 12. The text, when copied into Appleworks for example is
size 12 from Omniweb. Form IE, and iCab, it's size 16. 


-Paul

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Paul Kafasis
paulk at mac.com

>Hehe :)
>
>No, this has NOTHING to do with printers. :) Back then (1984, 85, ...) Mac 
>monitors actually *were* 72 DPI screens. This of course changed with the 
>first multisync monitors, where you - while changing the resolution - also 
>adjust the DPI of your monitor. But 72 DPI is still the way the system 
>measures its screen. And no, if you define a font as 12 px in a stylesheet,
>  IE does *not* make it 16 px high on your whatever DPI screen. It will be 
>12 px high, of course, because we're doing bitmap there. OmniWeb still 
>does a poor job with CSS and we all know that, but the 72 DPI do not 
>derive from 72 DPI printers but from screens.
>
>I guess OmniWeb uses the system settings for font sizes in its rendering 
>engine.
>
>Am Mittwoch den, 2. Januar 2002, um 19:07, schrieb David Hampson:
>
>> 	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.
>
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