Essential CSS: Relative font-sizing and IE6′s Text Size feature
January 11th, 2009
How I wish IE6 would go the way of movable type
By no means am I a CSS ninja, I’m not even a CSS guru, but what I am is a guy with a few years under my belt spent designing, developing and analyzing web sites. While working at Concordia University, I’ve had the… “privilege” of seeing a wide variety (X)HTML and CSS bugs. Here’s one bug that stole a day’s worth of work from me that I wanted to share:
In Internet Explorer 6, if the font-size of the body is set to 1em, the Text Size feature (shown below) when set to sizes other than medium, makes the fonts laughably out of proportion. If you are also having this problem…