Font sizes in Netscape vs. IE

[Anon]

I was reading the article on "dynamic CSS generation" using PHP and noticed that it says the "ie needs smaller fonts than anyone else".

It then sizes IE fonts smaller than Netscape. Am I the only one that experiences the complete opposite? I'm finding that Netscape scales the fonts larger than IE!

[Anon]

In the end it alldepends on what the user has set his default font size to.
If a website uses small fonts, I simply increase the fontsize in my netscape browser et presto....

[Anon]

yes, I understand that the Browser's actual text size setting affects presentation.

BUT, my point is that if IE & Netscape are both set to "medium", I'm noticing that Netscape's font's appear LARGER than IE. This seems to contradict what the article on dynamic CSS generation is saying.

[Anon]

No you are not the only one who experiences this. As noted, when using variable sized text for user friendly sites, the common font size is x-small. Now when using varialbe sizes you will find that ie displays a reasonable size, but when in ns it is always smaller. The ideal thing to do is make a javascript loader which checks for browser ie or ns and then points to a specific css.

<script language="javascript">
if (document.layers) {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/netscapechannel.css" type="text/css">'); }
else if (document.all) {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/iechannel.css" type="text/css">');
} else {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/netscapechannel.css" type="text/css">');
}
</script>

hope that helps
Xioli