> > I would imagine setting a browser minimum font size to bring (say) > cnn.com back to 100% font size equivalent would have no effect on a > site set to 100% font size; very little effect on one set to say 85%; > but running the browser in some zoom mode to get cnn to 100% equiv > would blow our font-size 100% sites out to 150% equiv or similar!!
I have a related question, because when I first took up CSS in my designs in 2002 or so, I used to size my fonts in points. That was what word processing programs did it in, so that was how I did it. I gradually learned through online reading that that was not the right way to do it, and stopped, but I've never been able to figure out why it's wrong in the first place. It seems that this whole font sizing mess boils down to the fact that "pixel" is not a standardized unit of measure. one pixel on my monitor is a different size from one pixel on your monitor. But a point is a standardized unit of measure. it's 1/72 of an inch. And an inch is 0.0254 meters. And meters are well defined. Most graphic arts programs have the ability to guess the size of a pixel on your monitor, presumably from your drivers or some setting in your OS or something, so it seems that web browsers must be able to do that same thing. So it stands to reason that if you want your fonts to be 10pt (which is normal for print media) instead of 12 or 16pt (which is the common default size at the most common monitor resolutions) why not just set the font size to 10pt? and then if you have a 120dpi monitor, your browser knows that's 17px, and if you have an old 72dpi monitor, your browser knows that's 10px. And then it's no more illegible than a novel or a newspaper. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
