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
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