On 2009/02/17 19:45 (GMT-0600) Brian Funk composed: > With regard to > respecting users settings it seems more important to create in a way > that the text /can/ be scalable to let them do what they want with it - > hopefully without breaking your page design. Some ways of sizing prevent > this from being possible - or at least make it difficult or problematic.
One should be careful to avoid an assumption from "can" and "-able" that this is something uncommon. The effect is no different from browsers set to a different default size in the first place. Modern laptops often are delivered by vendors with a larger default to compensate for high resolution and small size. Without it, far fewer would ever sell. Too, the astute user often has a browser that features a minimum font size option he is using, which often has some pretty serious impact on under-informed scaling assumptions. > As an "avid typophile" the following page may be interesting to you. > <http://www.webtypography.net/Harmony_and_Counterpoint/Size/3.1.1/> Here's one that had a profound impact on why what is today is: http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size_intervals/altintervals.html That never got finished. http://fm.no-ip.com/css/W3C/css3-34discuss.html is a proposed improvement and completion that disregards Golden Section in deference to the realities of low px density web fonts. -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
