Hi Erlyn,

The matter of font size display in browsers is fairly complicated and if you browse around on the Net you will find scores of sites giving (often contradictory) advice about this problem.

This is what I have discovered so far:

• It is usually better for css stylesheets to state font sizes using relative values (%, em, etc) rather than absolute (pixels). That way, if the end-user resizes font sizes in his browser, all parts of text displayed will be resized proportionally.
• However, Mozilla-family browsers (such as the excellent Firefox) will resize text even if its size has been given in absolute (pixels) values in the css, which MS IE 6 will not be able to do.

Consequently, in order to make text a) look approximately the same whether viewed in FF or MSIE, and b) to be harmoniously and proportionally resized when the end-user modifies the text-size in his browser, most webmasters, theme and css designers now use a mixture of %, em and px font sizes. The themes introduced from Moodle 1.5 follow these conventions, which was not the case of themes such as cornflower in Moodle 1.4, which broke completely when resized in MSIE (text appeared either huge or tiny when resized at other sized than "medium").

Now, to me, the e-socrates theme appears exactly the same in FF and MSIE6, on the condition of course that FF is set at text-size = 100% and MSIE at text size = medium.

You say that you have to adjust font size in MSIE6 to medium in order to view your site the same as in FF, and this is perfectly normal, it is as it is meant to work.

I do not understand what you mean by "large fonts are too large". When I view either Andrea's e-socrates.org site or your phlunrs.com/iwrite site in either FF or MSIE6, they look exactly the same (which is as it should be). Can you please tell us where (in Andrea's or in your own) site you find that text appears too big?

Finally, if you want to have text in the right sideblock on your own site look bigger, change this in esocratesorg, file styles_font.css

.sideblock {
  font-size:0.7em 0.8em
}

Hope that helps,

Joseph