On 5/23/07, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Laakso
>
> It is a lot easier if you set default (100%) on the body. And use percent
> throughout for font-sizes and a raw number (no unit of measure) for
> line-height.
> This is a 5 minute fast & dirty pass at what you've got:
>
> body {...]
> --
>
> By setting body to 100% you still haven't define it, have you? That's why
> I
> was trying to set body to 13px and % for everything else.
>
> Mike
>
>
While this last is true, I think we have to realize that the web is not a
fixed medium, it is a flexible one. The vast majority of folks have either
set their default font sizes according to their preferences, or have
accepted the browser default because it doesn't bother them enough to find
out how to change it.
If this is so, then if you set your body font to 100% as David suggests, you
will be least likely to offend the largest part of your audience. On the
other hand if you use 13px for a default font size I will not be able to
read your page without resizing it, a nuisance to me. That alone, depending
on my mood, may well be (often is) enough to send me away without reading
further.
--
Ed Seedhouse
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