Specifying absolute font sizes with CSS is a hellish pit.  Here's two
article trees that bear this out:

http://style.cleverchimp.com
http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/points/font_wars.GIF

http://devworld.apple.com/internet/_html/pagespacing.html
http://alistapart.com/stories/fear4/index.html

And for Roger especially, the Tao of Web Design:

http://alistapart.com/stories/dao/index.html

In summary, points suck, ems suck and aren't supported by all browsers.
Pixels work on all browsers, but still suck.  And from what I gleaned
from the last article, trying too hard to control the user's experience
is the root cause of the suckage.

Don't get me started on trying to specify font sizes within form elements.


John Vance

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Quote marks in PHP have caused all kinds of hair loss here at nmxs.
Here's some suggestions to reduce the pain to a tolerable level:

Every form variable should have stripslashes() applied to it before use -
in every iteration through the page.  Otherwise, when magic_quotes is
turned on and a form is looped through twice, we get double-slashification.

If a string variable is being used in an sql statement, apply addslashes in
situ.  In other words, instead of

" ... szfoo='$foo' ... "

use

" ... szfoo='" . addslashes($foo) . "' ... "

If a string variable is being used in an input tag, and it may contain
double quotes, use htmlspecialchars:

<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="<% =htmlspecialchars($foo) %>">

This will replace double quotes with &quot;

Follow this advice, for it is the One True Path to Quote Enlightenment (or
some crap like that)


John