D Ross wrote:
I've been sizing fonts by specifying 100.01% on the body (the .01% helps safari and maybe IE for those wondering). I've been seeing, quite frequently, people specifying body font size as 76%. Any advantages or disadvantages to this besides probably not having to specify basic font sizes such as <p> and <li> that would normally be about 76%?
Bob's warning is well placed, as this is an issue where personal preferences and experiences may follow different tracks and end up at exactly the same result. Not much to discuss as long as it works across browser-land, and as long as visitors are happy with it. So, the pragmatic answer is: 'no, there's no advantage or disadvantage with either method--if the end result for font-size is going to be around 76% anyway.' Since I'm one of those who prefer a slightly larger font-size on text--regardless of browser, I most often end up with a dual definition of 16px for standard compliant browsers and 100.01% for IE/win on body, and 100%/inherit for all browsers on following text-elements. That's 'medium' in most browsers - also known as 'user's preferred font size': <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-size-props> The rest of the whole font-sizing issue is a matter of web designer's personal preferences and some browser-bugs and differences. No visitor is bound by defined font-size anyway, so the bottom line is that it doesn't matter all that much how you define font-sizes-- as long as the layout can handle *font-resizing* well enough. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
