On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed: > Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I > am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and > over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to > 62.5% and then increase using ems.
That insanity seems to have originated at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ http://www.bergamotus.ws/misc/sensible-css-text-sizing.html and http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/bbcnSS.html describe that method's impact. > I am using a browser resolution of > 1280x1024 Resolution is irrelevant to anything unless right along with it is known the size of the display. Combined they result is what is variously called PPI or DPI, which is a measure of screen pixel density. The higher the DPI, the more pixels are required to make text legible or an image large enough to show adequate detail. For example, your 1280x1024 on a 15" display is 109 DPI, on 17" 96 DPI, and on 19" 86 DPI. http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.xhtml > and the font size I am using is 1.4em, If you were using 1em you would be using 100% of the size the visitor has determined, passively or actively, is most appropriate for the bulk of web page text. > which I felt was a suitable > size, and to me, looks comparable to fonts on other sites I see. But if this > is not the "right" way to do it, I'm open to hearing what is. Going by what other sites do while seeming sensible is not. Most sites are styled in an obsolete tradition originated more than a decade ago when average display resolution was quite a bit lower than it is now, with a lot less variation in DPI then compared to now that we have pocket devices in wide use along with big HDTVs as display screens. It's only right sized when it looks right when the predominant size is the browser default. It's up to users to change their brower defaults if they find them to be inappropriate, in spite of the nearly universal designer assumption that users don't know how to do that. http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/defaultsize.html -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President 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/
