On 2008/04/14 11:56 (GMT-0700) Hayden's Harness Attachment apparently typed:
> html {
...
> font-size: 80%;
> }
> body {
...
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-weight: bold;
...
> And I am told repeatedly that my fonts are to larger. I use a screen reader
> with Firefox so I am not really concerned with font size. I have a lot of
> viewers from perfect site to totally blind like myself. What is your advice
> on font size? I have alot of IE and Firefox users.
> Angus MacKinnon
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> It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
> George Washington
Do you think Jesus would use CSS like that? By using it, you're in essence
saying to each visitor "You have incorrectly determined the best family,
weight and size text for yourself to read comfortably using your web browser,
so I'm going use my CSS power to usurp your decision."
Even though Jesus would actually know the best size for each visitor,
something you as webmaster or designer are incapable of knowing, I think he'd
probably leave it up to each visitor to make his own mistakes, and set
neither family, nor size, nor weight for you in either _body_ or _html_
elements. To do otherwise is simply rude. Some non-zero portion of the
universe does in fact have them correctly set, whether done passively or
actively. You can't know how many, which shouldn't matter anyway.
Visitors who complain about text size on sites where you have set body and/or
html font-size to 100% need to be told it's their own job to choose the best
size within their own viewing environment, because you are incapable of
knowing what's best outside your own environment. The closest thing there is
to a safe assumption is that each and every visitor has in fact set the best
size for his or herself, and that this decision needs to be respected, by
virtually never setting any size other than 100%/1em/medium on either html or
body.
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4
All the above does not imply that text size should never be set on elements
other than html or body. There are perfectly valid reasons to vary _portions_
of web pages from the users' preferences for text size, family & weight, but
not for blanket overrides cascading from html & body.
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