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px != pt ... not even close
Authored by: soronlin on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 05:19 AM EDT
With web pages, all you can do is to tell it to use the right size. The size it appears on the user's screen is up to them. Even the size of 1px is not ever these days equal to the size of one screen pixel.

However, the most certain way to get 14pt text is to specify it in points, not pixels.

In the case of this judgement, "14 point" is clearly referring to the size it would be in print media. That is the original and standard meaning of the term.

1 point = 1/72 inch.

You have: 14 point
You want: mm
* 4.9388889
So that notice should be in letters 5mm high. On this screen it's more like 5mm line spacing.

The page is constructed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the relevant line quoted in the parent post is in a file called "http://images.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/styles/legal-judgement.css" It is written specifically for this page. The default size of text on the Apple website is 12px with 18px line spacing.

In Apple's defence, if I set the default text size on my browser to 14pt and disable the font directive in the web page, (the Firebug add-on for FF is very useful,) I can discern no change to the text. It is somewhat likely that in modern browsers 1pt=1px. However the fact remains that, if the judgement refers to printers points, the text is far too small.

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