On 07-Feb-10 03:50, Felix Miata wrote: > 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'm at a bit of a loss, to see the difference between * {font-size: 100%;} body {font: 0.84em;} and * {font-size: 84%;} body {font: 1em;} When you start doing measurements at different dpi values, aren't you going to see about the same changes either way? Reese ______________________________________________________________________ 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/